Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trash-Hauler’s Ball | 2003 | Tom Young / Thomas W. Young | Buy |
| 2 | Silver Wings, Iron Cross | 2020 | Tom Young / Thomas W. Young | Buy |
| 3 | Red Burning Sky | 2022 | Tom Young / Thomas W. Young | Buy |
| 4 | The Mapmaker of World War II | 2025 | Tom Young / Thomas W. Young | Buy |
Tom Young’s standalone novels span military history. Silver Wings, Iron Cross (2020) pairs a WWII American bomber crew with a German U-boat captain. Red Burning Sky (2022) and The Mapmaker of World War II (2025) also draw on wartime settings.
Young served as a military airlift pilot, and that firsthand experience shapes his fiction. Silver Wings, Iron Cross tells the story of former enemies forced to cooperate after a crash landing, and it was his first novel set during World War II rather than the modern conflicts of his Parson and Gold series. Red Burning Sky takes place in occupied Yugoslavia and follows the rescue of downed American airmen.
Trash-Hauler’s Ball (2003) was his earliest standalone, published well before his later novels. The seventeen-year gap between it and Silver Wings, Iron Cross reflects Young’s shift from modern military settings to historical ones. His standalones can be read independently of his Parson and Gold series.