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Mark Greaney (Author), Lieutenant Colonel Hunter Ripley Rawlings IV - USMC (Author), Marc Vietor (Narrator),

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From the New York Times best-selling author of the Gray Man series comes a startlingly realistic novel of World War III.

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 over the world's hi-tech sector for generations to come.

Pitted against the Russians are a Marine lieutenant colonel pulled out of a cushy Pentagon job, a French Special Forces captain and his intelligence operative father, a young Polish 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.

Through grand land, sea, and air battles to a small unit fighting hand-to-hand in the jungle, Russia and the US face off in a terrifying but thrilling battle for world dominance - with constant the threat of a Russian nuclear detonation ever present.

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21 hours and 21 minutes
Author

Mark Greaney, see all
Narrator

Marc Vietor
Audible release date

16 July 2019
Language

English
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B07THBS5PQ
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	21 hours and 21 minutes
Author	Mark Greaney, Lieutenant Colonel Hunter Ripley Rawlings IV - USMC
Narrator	Marc Vietor
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	16 July 2019
Publisher	Audible Studios
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07THBS5PQ
Best Sellers Rank	26,523 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 168 in Political Thrillers (Audible Books & Originals) 176 in Military Thrillers (Audible Books & Originals) 375 in Action Thriller & Suspense Fiction

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Excellent.

Reviewed in Australia on 11 November 2019

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The "Field of Glory" stinks of sweat, fear, blood, and excrement - in this tense novel of modern combat. The plot is interesting, the characters are fully fleshed out, the dialogue is entertaining. Clearly, the author ( a few minor technical mistakes notwithstanding ) knows his stuff. I can highly recommend this novel, which has taken a place on the shelf, next to "Red Storm Rising" and "Team Yankee". Military fiction doesn't get better than this.

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Jim Kornmehl

A terrific read

Reviewed in Australia on 6 February 2020

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This book is written in similar style and content to Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy. Red Metal is probably the only book that is as exciting and gripping as Tom Clancy's best. The details are seemingly accurate but never boring and the several different story lines are excsiting and never confusing. I hope he writes nother similar one soon.

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Trev

A good read

Reviewed in Australia on 27 July 2019

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A realistic view of war. Ack casualties on both side which would really occur though I consider the casualty count to be a bit low for the level of conflict.

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Mike S

Great detail

Reviewed in Australia on 24 February 2022

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A very good read. The best book I’ve read in quite a while. I particularly enjoyed the high level of detail regarding military equipment and process. I had trouble putting this book down. Definitely recommend.

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Gary Bullivant

Great read

Reviewed in Australia on 21 March 2022

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Excellent. Strong and worrisome story line though. Could it really happen? Kept me intrigued and not wanting to stop reading.

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Keith Edwards

An eye opening thriller.

Reviewed in Australia on 12 March 2021

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With it's superbly written twist and turns, the storyline reveals the folly of war with all its terrible outcomes. We can only hope that fiction such as this never becomes fact.

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James Richardson

A "Couldn't put down book"

Reviewed in Australia on 8 September 2020

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Well rounded developed characters and a gripping story line.
Some of the scenarios are a little fantastic BUT this is a work of fiction that I enjoyed immensely. The ending appeared to point directly to a sequel and I hope that happens.
To anyone who enjoys action/techno, this is for you.

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Brolga

Great storyteller.

Reviewed in Australia on 27 June 2021

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I am currently reading this book. It is soooo hard to put down. I am a fan of Mark Greaney after reading the "Gray Man" series.

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Roving Scot

Strangely unsatisfying

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 July 2020

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I have only given this book two stars not because it is not a good story – it is, rather akin to Gripping Yarns. But the claims that it is well researched etc are just so wide of the mark if one has a bit of background or time to do a bit of checking up. I will detail a few examples of why this book goes into the fantasy bracket, rather than the techno-thriller bucket.
The French Army in Kenya. The French Army has never been in Kenya, it has always been safely inside the UK sphere of influence. It was originally part of the Empire from the late 1800s until independence in 1964, after which it joined the British Commonwealth. The French “bit” of Africa is over in West Africa and consists of a huge amount of desert. It is also keeping the French armed forces fully tied up trying to contain various Islamic fundamentalist Jihadists wandering the desert pathways. The UK is involved over there providing strategic airlift to France, something they lack themselves. In addition to these points it is also worth pointing out that the UK has a battalion training in Kenya for something like 6 months of the year, so if the Kenyans were to request anyone’s support, it would naturally be the army that has experience working in their environment and with their army.
Russian Army Structure. The authors make a great deal about the Russians employing a Brigade for their strategic Operational raids into Germany and Kenya. Throughout the narrative, however, the authors continuously refer to Regiments as part of the brigade. I suggest a quick Google search of Russian Rifle Regiment to get some background. A MRR is in every other army’s terminology, a Brigade. It consists of 3 or 4 combat battalions with supporting arms. A Motor Rifle Division consists of three or more MRR plus supporting arms (artillery, engineers, AD etc). It is therefore quite clear that the Russian forces in each theatre are a strong divisional sized formation with a full range of supporting arms.
Russian hacking. The authors have the whole gamut of NATO communications taken down by elite hackers. Unfortunately this is just not going to happen since NATO secure communications are not connected in any way to the internet so cannot he hacked by the Russians. So in the event of a Russian attack NATO forces would be in communication with each other and their Supreme Operational HQ at Mons in Belgium from the very first moment, and certainly by the time the Russians bounce the early Polish forces.
Russian Air Attacks. As the opening stage of the Russian attack, Russian Air Force aircraft penetrate NATO airspace to attack satellites over Germany. There is some hat tipping towards the NAEW force in Germany, but it does not get off its backside. This is a travesty of the real situation. NATO maintain an Air Policing Mission at all times (24/7) over the eastern border. This consists of at least two two ship patrols north and south and backed up at all times by at least one AWACS. While it is possible for Russia to attack satellites over Germany they would e unable to do this with detection and a rapid escalation of the NATO posture
American counter attack. This is formed by a scratch force of logisticians and maintainers at Grafenwohr. I remain confused how a Brigade level force of non-tankers are able to continuously engage with and effectively defeat a formation 3 to 4 times larger composed of combat arms specialists. I was a military maintainer so am happy for my side of the house to get some recognition, but steady boys.
Route in Africa. For some reason the authors have the Russians, with Iranian support decide to invade and take over Djibouti. After securing the port and surrounding area the Russian Brigade (actually read as Division) sets off for Kenya. Unfortunately the only usable road out of Djibouti takes the traffic to Addis Addaba, the capital of Ethiopia. There is no way around this as south and south-east from the port is the Ogaden desert. For reason unknown, the Ethiopian army is not involved is trying to stop a Russian force invading their country. No explanation of this is given and no side bar demonstrates that the authors understand this. If you ever visit Ethiopia you will discover that the infrastructure does not support the sort of forces being deployed here, and getting a force of this size and complexity over the Ethiopian escarpment would be a major achievement in its own right. Given that Mogadishu in Somalia is not defended by an army and is very close to the northern border of Kenya, one has to wonder why that was not the chosen drop odd spot – easy to reach, no local opposition and shorter travel to destination.
My last comment is about the NATO response. There is none, even though SACEUR would have the following forces at his disposal from day one: French Rapid Reaction Corps at Lille, German Dutch Corps at Munster, Westphalia, UK 1st Armoured Division North Germany, EuroCorps at Strasbourg, plus additional US Forces throughout Germany – and that is just the army boys. As already identified above, NATO secure comms would have been buzzing from the moment the Russians crossed into Poland and SACEUR in Mons would have taken very strong and immediate action to marshal Allied forces and respond quickly.
US Marines. I thought the whole Marines thing worked well, the dialogue was robust and punchy, just what you expect from good troops of this type. The combat sequences were very authentic and well written and I had no problem with that aspect of the story. It is a pity that the strong effort here was let down by poor research on these other points.

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Gilman Grundy

Gripping, but preposterous

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 May 2020

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I greatly enjoyed reading this book. The characters are at least memorable and there are numerous intense combat scenes in it that stood out.

On the flip-side, the actual premise of the book (essentially Russian army units invade all the way into Germany, with no-one stopping them, aided by hackers magically switching off air defences and so-forth) is truly ridiculous. Hacking is not magic and cannot simply switch off firewalled systems, the Russians could never get that far that quickly. Also, the MacGuffin of the story (rare earth metals that can only be extracted from a few mines) is basically wrong - "rare earth metals" are not actually as rare as the story makes out. I don't think the comments from some reviewers about this story being "expertly researched" and so-forth are entirely deserved.

All the same this was an entertaining read.

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Mrs C Hutchinson.

Don’t miss this one.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 September 2019

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I have long been a fan of Mark Greaney and approached this book with interest since it is a departure from the Grey Man template and has no single leading character. Initially I thought I was not going to enjoy the read, but how wrong I was. This book has everything that I need in a novel. Well researched, plausible and well planned plot, characters you can engage with and non stop action. Russia, trying to gain control of an area of rare earth minerals in Africa embarks on a series of subterfuges to cover their intentions and leading to battles on several fronts, Europe, Africa and cyber. The book moves between each theatre along a time frame. The book is lengthy, deep and totally engrossing. I also have the whispersync option and the narration is extremely good. A fantastic read.

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C. P. Dyckes

Utter Brilliance - The New Clancy!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 November 2019

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This is simply the best book ever from Mark Greaney and he's now surpassed the great Tom Clancy (with whom he co-wrote books).
I had previously thought that his one weakness was the lack of technical knowledge of military hardware and tactics, compared to Clancy but the input of a USMC Lt. Colonel has fixed that in spades.
A fast paced, entirely believable novel about Russian ambitions present day that is a guaranteed page turner from start to end.
I read it in just two long sessions and can't wait for more books in this ilk from Mark Greaney.
There's a new king of the techno-thriller and that's Mark Greaney. The other so called 'Clancy' novels by Cameron are a very poor imitation of Clancy’s writing style and best avoided.

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skotl

Surprisingly good.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 May 2020

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I've been a fan of Mark Greaney's previous books and this one was quite a departure. An incredibly detailed read, clearly very well researched and (as others have suggested) perhaps in the mould of Tom Clancey.

A number of different characters whose lives interleave into a huge story (in terms of both number of pages and complexity). I was impressed that not all the characters survive - not to throw any spoilers in, but heroes can die too, and it's a brave author who acknowledges that.

A very good read for anyone who is interested in modern warfare, with a decent amount of what-comes-around to deal with some characters' hubris.

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