Tom Young

A terrorist bombing strikes an Afghan police training center in Kabul, leaving dozens of critically injured blast victims. An Air Force transport plane takes off with some of the wounded, who are bound for a hospital in Germany. Once airborne, pilot Michael Parson learns terrorists have also placed a bomb on board the aircraft. The…

One of the neat things about becoming an author is meeting other authors at literary events. You get to exchange ideas and learn about their work. At one event recently, at the National Press Club in Washington, I ran into Matt Gallagher. He’s the author of the Iraq war memoir, KABOOM: EMBRACING THE SUCK IN…

The U.S. Justice Department might have difficulty defining Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The media also have trouble setting a name to what he has done. He has portrayed himself as a cyber-age muckraker, crusading against government secrecy and skulduggery. Assange’s Wikipedia page says he’s “an Australian journalist, publisher, and Internet activist.” But if those words…

 Imagine the following scenarios: You’re a sergeant riding shotgun with an Army convoy in Iraq. An IED explodes next to your vehicle and showers you with sand, rocks, and flames. Seriously burned, you pull yourself from the damaged gun truck and wonder what will happen next. You’re a crew member of a C-5 Galaxy lifting…

Some thoughts on the Air Force’s mobility fleet…. These observations are my own and do not represent official military policy. Tonight, in Air Force jets over a black Atlantic, bleary-eyed aviators will sip coffee and monitor instruments on the first leg of an airlift run to Afghanistan or Iraq. They’ll maneuver their C-17s or C-5s…

The Campaign for the American Reader is a great initiative to encourage more people to read more books. The program includes a number of blogs and columns. One of them is called “My Book, The Movie,” in which authors imagine the film version of their works. Writer and producer Marshal Zeringue invited me to offer…

Thanks to Kim in Hawaii for the kind words on her blog about THE MULLAH’S STORM: http://sosaloha.blogspot.com/2010/09/celebrating-air-force-legacy-thomas-w.html As she quite rightly notes, we’re coming up on the birthday of the Air Force. Fly, Fight, and Win! Meanwhile, here’s a photo of me with some dear old friends from my Associated Press days, taken at last…

In a guest column for the Guide to Literary Agents blog, I offered a few thoughts on writing fiction. It’s at: http://www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog/

Here’s audio from this week’s interview on Northeast Public Radio. Thanks to Joe Donahue, host of “The Roundtable.” http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain/article/231/0/1698621/The.Roundtable/Thomas.W..Young.-.The.Mullah’s.Storm

I had the terrific opportunity to discuss THE MULLAH’S STORM and the situation in Afghanistan in a podcast for National Review Online. It came as part of John J. Miller’s “Between the Covers” author interviews. By the way, John’s historical novel, THE FIRST ASSASSIN, comes out in a new edition on Sept. 14. Meanwhile, if…