{"id":74093,"date":"2019-04-03T18:48:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T00:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=74093"},"modified":"2019-04-03T18:49:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T00:49:04","slug":"mark-greaney-is-on-thacker-mountain-radio-at-6-pm-april-4-2019-with-his-book-mission-critical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/mark-greaney-is-on-thacker-mountain-radio-at-6-pm-april-4-2019-with-his-book-mission-critical\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Greaney is on Thacker Mountain Radio at 6 pm April 4, 2019 with his book, &#8220;Mission Critical&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A Russian military strike against Europe could change the balance of power in the West.&nbsp; A stunningly realistic view of modern warfare from a battlefield commander and the&nbsp;<em>New York Times&nbsp;<\/em>bestselling author of&nbsp;<em>The Gray Man<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Russian bear has awakened. Their tanks race across Poland crushing all opposition on a headlong dash for the heart of Germany. Satellite killing missiles blind American forces while Spetznatz teams destroy Allied communications relays. It&#8217;s all part of a master plan to confuse and defeat America and her allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ranged against the Russian attack are a Marine lieutenant colonel pulled out of a cushy job at the Pentagon and thrown into the fray, a French Special Forces captain and his intelligence operative father, a young Polish female partisan fighter, an A-10 Warthog pilot, and the captain of an American tank platoon who, along with a German sergeant, struggle to keep a small group of American and German tanks in the fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Operation Red Metal is a nightmare scenario made real but could it just be the first move on the Russian chessboard?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mark Greaney<\/strong>&nbsp;has a degree in international relations and political science. In his research for the Gray Man novels, including&nbsp;<em>Agent in Place<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Gunmetal Gray<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Back Blast<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Dead Eye<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Ballistic<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>On Target<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>The Gray Man<\/em>, he traveled to more than fifteen countries and trained alongside military and law enforcement in the use of firearms, battlefield medicine, and close-range combative tactics. He is also the author of the<em>&nbsp;New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;bestsellers&nbsp;<em>Tom Clancy Support and Defend<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Tom Clancy Commander in Chief<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Tom Clancy True Faith and Allegiance<\/em>. With Tom Clancy, he coauthored&nbsp;<em>Locked On<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Threat Vector<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Command Authority<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian military strike against Europe could change the balance of power in the West.&nbsp; A stunningly realistic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":74214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2239],"tags":[14249,448,602,846],"class_list":["post-74093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","tag-mark-greaney","tag-off-square-books","tag-square-books","tag-thacker-mountain-radio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/greaney-mission-critical-620x310.jpg?fit=620%2C310&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}