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    The Warriors
    The Warriors
    The Warriors
    Audiobook10 hours

    The Warriors

    Written by Tom Young

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Tom Young has earned both popular and critical acclaim for his scintillating suspense fiction. In The Warriors, Lt. Col. Michael Parson couldn't be happier about his new assignment on a Kyrgyzstan air base. But after taking what he expected to be an easy job, a drug-laden C-27 crashes on the runway--drawing Parson into a deadly game of intrigue that could end in an international conflagration.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 6, 2013
    ISBN9781470366315
    The Warriors
    Author

    Tom Young

    Tom Young is Chairman of Knoco Ltd. Prior to that Tom was founding member and Principal Coach of BPs Knowledge Management Team and Virtual Teamworking project. His understanding of cultures and industries and how to successfully interact with them, allows him to be equally at home in the Asia Pacific as in Wall Street.

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    • 3/5
      Tooooo Sloooow. Liked the narration a lot, but almost could not make it to the end.
    • 1/5
      This novel is read so slowly and without any emotion, I couldn't take much more than the first chapter
    • 3/5
      Our heroes, Gold and Parsons work together again. The book described a good break down of the Balkan Wars and the mindsets of the different sides involved. As an interesting aside, Young uses an RC-135 Rivet Joint ((RJ) as an integral part of the story. Author admits to lack of experience with it--in my humble opinion, RJ would never be employed as he describes, nor are it's security procedures so lax that it could be bomb damaged in flight. Logistics? Not even close. Further, I thought that the author's perspective parochially Air Force; almost as bad as Robinson and Brown (Don) are with their Navy stories. Additionally, Parsons and his new Air Guard boss got off track from their Manas mission quite a lot...not may bosses would stand for that. That said, the story was, again, gripping and exciting. The characters were well portrayed.. Introduced this time, an OSI agent, an Air Guard Colonel/lawyer and a linguist. We understand Parsons and Gold pretty well after this, the fourth book in the series.
    • 2/5
      2 stars because it failed to grab me. It discusses fans of Clancy liking the book, bt unlike Clancy, I never got engaged. Definitely by the numbers and entertaining as such, but not at all special.
    • 5/5
      Every time I get a Tom Young book, I curl up and read it slowly. I’m sure you know that sometimes reviewers read about half of a book because you can easily write a review from that and not give anything away because you don’t know the ending. I can’t do that with Tom Young, the books are just too good.The Warriors takes place in the Balkan States: Bosnia, Serbia, etc. Some idiot is trying to restart a war that ended over a decade ago and he’s doing a fine job. Especially since he’s blaming it all on the Muslims.It begins with Lt. Colonel Michael Parsons being assigned a new duty: safety officer at a base in Kyrgyzstan. Piece of cake. Until a C-27 full of opium crashes there. Questions need answers, Parsons doesn’t speak the language so he calls in his linguist and close friend Sgt. Major Sylvia Gold. Together with the base Commander and local officers, they help determine who’s the culprit and how to stop him, hopefully before anything else happens.You learn so much from Tom Young’s books. This time, we learn about the Rivet Joint: a plane which sprouts antennas to listen to phone traffic. (Shades of Edward Snowden!) This a phenomenal plane and the people who do the listening have a very important job. Very interesting.I say this each time, but I do think this is my favorite of the books so far. It came out in July and I’m sure is a huge hit.
    • 4/5
      As usual this was an excellent read. History of the Balkan wars, and the danger of radical minds to bend people to their wills. Very interesting read.
    • 4/5
      The title "The Warriors" I think could have been scrapped for a better one. After reading the book, it just didn't seem to fit. Though that is probably the biggest problem I had with it. It was a pretty good story and painted a very interesting picture with a bit of history about the Balkan war. It also shows people need to be vigilant for those consumed with hate to try and bend the world to their will.Overall, I enjoyed this book. I think it was well written and the story fits together very well. I didn't notice any glaringly bad holes like you see in the plots of a Dan Brown or Steve Berry books. I'm not sure what was missing to get is a higher star rating but the author has a solid foundation to build on and I expect them to keep getting better.
    • 4/5
      The Warriors is a exciting book, well written about a Serb ex-Lieutenant that is attempting to start another war with the Muslims. It starts out with a accidental plane crash, but in the investagations what was found in the cargo was opium . The profits to be used to fund the upcoming war. Exciting to the very end with a Lamborghini car crash. I would recommend this book, and will seek and read Tom Young's other novels.
    • 3/5
      The WarriorsBy Tom Young“Cool reason came when you accepted death as inevitable. Hope only clouded your thinking. If you decided you were already dead, you could function so much better, focus on the mission.” So believed “Lieutenant” Young’s the antagonist in this easy to read and totally believable novel. This is a novel of terrorism in the Balkans that reminds us of the appalling days in the former Yugoslavia. Dusic is a Serbian arms dealer who cannot accept that Muslims are not only living in but steadily gaining a larger foothold in his land. His mission is devise acts of terrorism to reenergize the blood baths of the past.The US Air Force and various Serbian police forces are the only barriers to his plans. This well written novel exposes the reader to the anti- terrorism capabilities of the military such as electronic listening and tracking of suspected terrorists to the linguistic interpreters who monitor this state-of-art equipment.A real treat for military and former military members who can relate to dangerous situations and this novel comes at a time when the NSA is being exposed as using this same kind of monitoring on American citizens. You will be amazed at how Young’s characters tracks down the bad guys and you will also gain insight on flying and managing one of the Rivet Joint missions.
    • 5/5
      The Warriors by Tom Young is a very good novel about terrorism in the Balkans. The story follows Col. Parson and SGM Gold in a story about a former Serbian soldier who wants to restart the Balkan wars on independence for Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo to rid Serbia of the muslim population. He participated in the original wars in the 1990's to prevent these regions from breaking apart Yugoslavia (controlled by the Serbians).The story starts with a plane crash in Kyrgystan at the Manas air base used by the US military to support the war in Afghanistan. The plane is carrying drugs out of Afghanistan in military supplies to be reconditioned by the Afghanistan Air Force. The drugs are being picked up on behalf of the arms dealer to fund his new Balkan war to cleanse the Turks from Serbia. The trail leads back to Belgrade and Sarajevo.Col. Parson and SGM Gold are characters from the previous novel, "The Renegades". The characters are well developed and interesting. The story is well told and easy to follow even with the few twists and turns in the novel. A very good quick read.
    • 4/5
      The Warriors is a novel about a force of evil (a self-described Serbian patriot who wants to restart civil war in Serbia to eject the remaining Muslims --- ethnic Turks) and various forces of good who want to stop him. Sad to say, the novel conveys a good bit of the history of mankind's inhumanity to man. Why is it that so many people have been, and continue to be murdered in the name of religion? With one exception, described below, the book is very well written. The author, a journalist by trade, and a member of the Air National Guard, knows of what he writes, and the tale is both interesting and believable.Several characters are well developed and one, LTC Michael Parson, is the leading candidate for the main protagonist. The trouble is, you are never quite sure about that since the author uses the third person voice. The effect is to distance the reader from all of the characters, including the unidentified narrator. Third person, IMHO, is a poor choice for a thriller like this. Had the author instead used first person voice, this would most likely have been a five-star review. Bottom line: very good; could have been better; recommended.
    • 3/5
      THE WARRIORS begins with an airplane going down at Manas Air Force Base in Kyrgyzstan. Lt. Colonel Michael Parson is the base's new security officer and as he investigates the crash he finds opium on board. This discovery leads a trail to Serbia and a mad man who wants to reignite ethnic cleansing in the region. Sgt. Major Sophia Gold assists Parson in his investigation as a translator and compatriot.THE WARRIORS is the first novel I have read from Tom Young. Young clearly knows the subject matter of a military procedural, making good use of his military experience. He crafted a well-written story around a war in the Balkans that never should have occurred, but could very easily ignite again now. The characters were well-drawn and believable. I had only two issues with the book. First, some of the information and specifications on aircraft were so technical that it was difficult to understand. A little more explanation was needed. Secondly, more action is needed in the first half of the book. The second half of the book was excellent, but there were a few places in the first half where the story bogged down a little.Overall, I was impressed with THE WARRIORS and intend to read other books of Tom Young.
    • 4/5
      I thoroughly enjoyed this suspenseful novel set in the Balkans. It reminds us of one of the "other holocausts" that occurred in modern time - the war between Bosnian and Turks for control of part of eastern Europe. The characters are well developed and give glimpses into the technology of contemporary wartime, and the fanatical nature of some who cannot forgive or forget. I hope another book is in the works!
    • 4/5
      Lt. Col Parson, assigned as safety officer to Manas air base in Kyrgyzstan, expects a quiet duty station, having left behind his responsibilities for training Afghanistan pilots in flight safety procedures in that war torn country. But pilot error causes a C-27 from Afghanistan to crash and burn on the runway right before his eyes.The load of electronic gear it carries conceals opium, which reveals a hidden Serbian nationalistic plot to trigger a new ethnic cleansing war for profit and power.