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Tom Young (born 1962 in Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American novelist. He is known primarily as the author of military thrillers such as The Mullah's Storm, Silent Enemy, and The Renegades. Young served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and he remains a member of the West Virginia Air National Guard. Young's military experience inspired his debut novel, The Mullah's Storm, which garnered positive reviews. The Mullah's Storm received a Gold Medal award from the Military Writers Society of America.

Career
Young began his writing career as a journalist. He received BA and MA degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and he worked as a writer, editor, and newsroom supervisor for the broadcast division of the Associated Press from 1987 to 1997. During his time at AP, Young joined the Air National Guard and trained as a flight engineer on the C-130 Hercules and later on the C-5 Galaxy. His essay "Night Flight to Baghdad" appeared in the anthology Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families. "Night Flight to Baghdad" was also excerpted in Stars and Stripes (newspaper). (See also Operation Homecoming (book).) Young's nonfiction book The Speed of Heat: An Airlift Wing at War in Iraq and Afghanistan is an oral history of the 167th Airlift Wing's missions in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Novels

 * 1) The Mullah's Storm (2010)
 * 2) Silent Enemy (2011)
 * 3) The Renegades (2012)

Nonfiction

 * 1) The Speed of Heat: An Airlift Wing at War in Iraq and Afghanistan (2008)