Major Yuri Vladimirovich Borbikov hated this hot, filthy, nothing part of Africa, but he was ready to die for it.Īnd as he looked out over the jungle and down the hill to the flatlands below, he thought the odds were stacked in favor of his doing just that today. What follows is an excerpt from Red Metal, provided to Mystery Tribune by Berkley Publishing. Pitted against the Russians are a Marine lieutenant colonel pulled out of a cushy job at the Pentagon and thrown into the fray in Africa, a French Special Forces captain and his intelligence operative father, a young Polish female partisan fighter, an A-10 Warthog pilot, and the commander of an American tank platoon who, along with his German counterpart, fight from behind enemy lines in Germany all the way into Russia.įrom a daring MiG attack on American satellites, through land and air battles in all theaters, naval battles in the Arabian sea, and small unit fighting down to the hand-to-hand level in the jungle, Russia’s forces battle to either take the mines or detonate a nuclear device to prevent the West from exploiting them. In Red Metal, a desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy three Rare Earth mineral mines that will give Russia unprecedented control for generations over the world’s hi-tech sector. Hunter Ripley Rawlings IV and one of the best espionage thrillers of this year so far. Red Metal is the first standalone novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Greaney and USMC Lt.
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