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. 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.

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Gray Man series comes a startlingly realistic novel of World War III.Ī 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.

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