Tom Young

Great article from The Independent on how fiction takes us places life cannot: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/philip-hensher/philip-hensher-fiction-takes-you-to-places-that-life-cant-2309538.html

…from bookreporter: http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews2/9780399156922.asp

For a great visit to Chincoteague Island, Virginia, this past weekend–along with a terrific book-signing at Sundial Books.

If you’ll be near Virginia’s Eastern Shore on Saturday, please join me for a book signing at Sundial Books on Chincoteague Island at six p.m.!

THE MULLAH’S STORM comes out in paperback on June 7. Here’s a review of the novel from the Dallas Morning News: http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/headlines/20100919-Book-Review-The-Mullah-531.ece

Safe travels to the bikers heading in to Washington for the Rolling Thunder Memorial Day ride! I’ve never owned a motorcycle, but I always enjoy seeing the Rolling Thunder guys and gals rumbling by with their flags and their Harleys. God bless, and thanks for your service!

Last Wednesday, these three events took place at the same time: President Obama released his birth certificate to quell a fringe conspiracy theory–never supported by any facts–that he was not born in this country. Fans of Sony PlayStation were complaining because their network was down. And eight U.S. Air Force members, along with a civilian contractor,…

The lights of Tokyo glittered underneath our wings as my Air National Guard crewmates and I flew a recent airlift mission. As we arrived in our C-5 Galaxy, news reports spoke of a thousand-fold radiation increase in seawater at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. We landed at Yokota Air Base, about 150 miles south of…

To the layman, the recently announced Boeing contract to build aerial refueling tankers for the Air Force may sound exorbitant. At $35 billion, it ranks among the largest contracts in Pentagon history, and it comes at a time of steep deficits and government cutbacks. Commentator Robert Scheer called it “perverse.” In the Truthdig web magazine,…