Tom Young (novelist)

He is known primarily as the author of the military thrillers The Mullah's Storm, Silent Enemy, The Renegades, The Warriors, and Sand and Fire.

[3] The Mullah's Storm, Silent Enemy, and The Renegades received Gold Medal awards from the Military Writers Society of America.

Young also worked as a writer, editor, and newsroom supervisor for the broadcast division of the Associated Press for ten years.

Troops and Their Families included Young's first-person account of flying over Iraq, titled "Night Flight to Baghdad."

A panel of celebrated authors, guided by historian Andrew Carroll, chose the 89 contributors who were published in Operation Homecoming.