The Hunters
by Tom Young
A remarkable military thriller from one of the most acclaimed new suspense writers in years—"a triumph of the fiction of contemporary warfare" (Alan Cheuse, The Dallas Morning News). Khatar. It is the Arabic word for "dangerous," and it is one that Colonel Michael Parson has heard all too often on his present mission. His friend Sophia Gold has talked him into taking his accumulated leave from the Air Force to fly relief supplies into Somalia in an antique DC-3 cargo plane.Somalia is a country filled with armed clans, pirates, poverty, and, increasingly, terrorism, and Parson and Gold are about to find out about all of them firsthand. An al-Shabaab leader called The Sheikh has declared all aid to be a sin against God, and is launching attacks against planes and convoys to stop it. If that isn't bad enough, a Hollywood actress and activist has flown into Somalia to make a documentary, and as far as Parson is concerned, she might as well just...