Rawlings is an avid scuba diver, small-craft sailor, and microbrewer. He is currently assigned to Quantico as the Warfighting Director for Marine Corps Command and Staff College.

A former infantry battalion commander and light armored reconnaissance officer, he has served for more than twenty years. Hunter 'Rip' Rawlings IV is an active duty Marine and a veteran of combat in Afghanistan and Iraq. With Tom Clancy, he coauthored Locked On, Threat Vector, and Command Authority. He is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers Tom Clancy Support and Defend, Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect, Tom Clancy Commander in Chief, and Tom Clancy True Faith and Allegiance. In his research for the Gray Man novels, including Agent in Place, Gunmetal Gray, Back Blast, Dead Eye, Ballistic, On Target, and The Gray Man, 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. Mark Greaney has a degree in international relations and political science. Operation Red Metal is a nightmare scenario made real but could it just be the first move on the Russian chessboard? 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. It's all part of a master plan to confuse and defeat America and her allies. Satellite killing missiles blind American forces while Spetznatz teams destroy Allied communications relays. Their tanks race across Poland crushing all opposition on a headlong dash for the heart of Germany. A stunningly realistic view of modern warfare from a battlefield commander and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gray Man. A Russian military strike against Europe could change the balance of power in the West.

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