Title: Red metal
Description: 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. 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.
Subjects: nyt:hardcover-fiction=2019-08-04, New York Times bestseller, Imaginary wars and battles, Mines and mineral resources, Fiction, Technology and civilization, FICTION / Thrillers / Military, FICTION / Thrillers / Political, FICTION / Action & Adventure