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The Mullah's Storm

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by Tom Young
Scott Brick
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An extraordinary debut novel about courage and survival in Afghanistan, written as only a man who has "been there and done that" could tell it.
"When you write fiction, your best work may come from what scares you the most," writes airman Thomas W. Young. "When I first flew to Afghanistan, what scared me the most wasn't the thought of getting shot down and killed. It was the thought of getting shot down and not killed. . . ."
A transport plane carrying an important Taliban detainee for interrogation is shot down in a blizzard over the Hindu Kush. The storm makes rescue impossible, and for two people—navigator Michael Parson and a woman Army interpreter, Sergeant Gold—a battle for survival begins across some of the most forbidding terrain on earth against not only the hazards of nature, but the treacheries of man: the Taliban stalking them; the villagers, whose loyalty is unknown; and a prisoner who would very much like the three of them to be caught. All Parson and Gold have is each other, to stay alive.
It is a novel of relentless pace and constant surprise, not only in the turns of its plot but in the strength and fleetness of its prose. Thomas Young is a writer—and this is the beginning of a brilliant career.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Michael Parson & Sophia Gold

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  • Release date

    September 7, 2010

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780307875945
      • File size: 234140 KB
      • Duration: 08:07:47

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      An Air Force plane transporting a Taliban prisoner is shot down over the Hindu Kush. A brutal winter storm sets in, preventing rescue, and crash survivors Major Michael Parson and female Army interpreter Sergeant Gold set out on foot across the unforgiving terrain to take the radical mullah to the authorities for questioning. Scott Brick's narration of harrowing encounters with hostile forces; descriptions of the brutal cold; and Parson and Gold's ingenious, utterly believable solutions to seemingly impossible situations is beautifully understated. From the mullah's assertion that the storm is God's way of assisting the Taliban to Parson and Gold's capture by insurgents and the final heart-stopping battle between Special Forces troops and fanatic Taliban fighters, Brick keeps the pace breakneck and the story credible. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

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