Mark Greaney is a well-loved and well-respected author, and this may be his best work. There’s great tension as the story builds, and I was completely absorbed and consumed by Red Metal.Ĭheck out the reviews and ratings on Goodreads. It felt like a Clancy novel in its scope, depth, and authenticity. I’m not writing a long review because reading Red Metal is an experience. The characters were easy to care for as well. From the start, it feels like it could actually happen that it was actually happening. I was captivated early on, and it never let go.

Red Metal is a chunk of a read at over 600 pages, but it never felt like it. There’s an interesting and varied cast of heroes from multiple countries up against the Russians.įighting through land and air and all across the world, everyone is trying to stop Russia from taking the mines, while Russia threatens to use a nuclear bomb to keep anyone else from gaining access to them. The goal is to gain control of key mineral mines. Russia takes a hit at both Western Europe and east Africa. This book, Red Metal, is a true standalone. I read it as a standalone, but it is part of a series. ♥️īack in February, I was invited to read a Gray Man novel by Mark Greaney, Mission Critical. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ I thought this would be a great book to share with my dad, so we can discuss it. Operation Red Metal is a nightmare scenario made real but could it just be the first move on the Russian chessboard? Ranged against the Russian attack are a Marine lieutenant colonel pulled out of a cushy job at the Pentagon and thrown into the fray, a French Special Forces captain and his intelligence operative father, a young Polish female partisan fighter, an A-10 Warthog pilot, and the captain of an American tank platoon who, along with a German sergeant, struggle to keep a small group of American and German tanks in the fight.

It's all part of a master plan to confuse and defeat America and her allies.

Satellite killing missiles blind American forces while Spetznatz teams destroy Allied communications relays.

Their tanks race across Poland crushing all opposition on a headlong dash for the heart of Germany. A stunningly realistic view of modern warfare from a battlefield commander and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gray Man. A Russian military strike against Europe could change the balance of power in the West.

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