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MWSA Review
Mark Sibley’s Mongol Moon is a scary but plausible scenario that sees several of America’s worst enemies team up to start World War III on our own soil.
China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea have all decided that their only way out of economic and agricultural decline is to seize the rich territory of the United States. Working together, they coordinate an attack that initially leaves us blind and unable to strike back. But the bad guys have forgotten how much the average American, when pushed, pushes back, and veterans and active duty alike come together to fight the invaders whenever and wherever they can. Will it be enough?
The author does an outstanding job of weaving together several seemingly unconnected story lines into a cohesive story, and while there is closure at the end of the book for those characters most thoroughly developed, there is an obvious intent to set up for numerous sequels. If they are all as exciting as this first installment, I’m looking forward to it.
Fans of Tom Clancy, Dale Brown, or MWSA’s own Dale Dye and Jeff Edwards will find a lot to like in this book. Fast-moving, exciting, and with a unique story line, action fans won’t be able to put this one down.
Review by Rob Ballister (April 2020)
MWSA's evaluation of this book found a number of technical problems--including some combination of misspellings, grammar, punctuation, or capitalization errors.
Author's Synopsis
Mongol Moon, an apocalyptic thriller about a nuclear attack on the US and Europe, follows several heroic and desperate individuals as they all converge on Virginia—where their families live as well as where the enemy gathers.
When the war begins, Navy Commander Joey Washington is on the International Space Station. The last thing she observes before she and her fellow astronauts evacuate is North America and Europe plunged into pitch darkness and bright flashes blooming on the Indian sub-continent. Her family is in Virginia, but her landing zone is in Kazakhstan.
Javad works as chief spymaster for the feared Iranian Ministry of Intelligence. Over time, he has become angry and alone in the world, his loved ones dying at the hands of the same regime he’s served for nearly forty years. Darkness takes root in Javad’s mind as he concocts and nourishes an audacious plan against his enemies. His quest for vengeance, however, has put what remains of his family, now living in Virginia, in danger.
Gunnery Sergeant An Nguyen and his Marines are in a darkened Fort Knox, Kentucky, where he’s been ordered to D.C. to contact command authority. Nguyen and his men only have moments before the Christmas Eve power outage turns deadly. Fighting for their lives through a changed country with one of the only vehicles that still runs, a tank nicknamed Alice, his mind is on his parents and their home in Virginia.
ISBN/ASIN: 978-1-7340771-0-0, 978-1-7340771-1-7, 978-1-7340771-2-4
Book Format(s): Soft cover, Kindle
Review Genre: Fiction—Mystery/Thriller
Number of Pages: 306