title: Mortal Threat
author: A.J. Tata
description: Brigadier General <b>Anthony J. Tata</b>, U.S. Army (Retired), commanded combat units in the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions and the 10th Mountain Division. His last combat tour was in Afghanistan in 2007 where he earned the Combat Action Badge and Bronze Star Medal. He is the author of the four critically acclaimed and award winning Threat Series novels,<i>Sudden Threat, Rogue Threat,Hidden Threat</i>, and <i>Mortal Threat. </i>General Tata became a national bestselling author with his fifth novel and the first in a new series, <i>Foreign and Domestic</i>. He is a frequent foreign policy guest commentator on Fox News, CNN, CBS News, and <i>The Daily Buzz</i>. NBC's <i>Today Show </i>featured General Tata's career transition from the army to education leadership where he has served as the Chief Operations Officer of Washington, DC Public Schools for firebrand Chancellor Michelle Rhee and as the Superintendent of the 16th largest school district in the nation in Wake County/Raleigh, NC. Most recently he served as the Secretary of Transportation for the state of North Carolina.
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  Advance Praise for Foreign and Domestic
  
  
  “Foreign and Domestic delivers . . . absolutely fantastic! It captures the
  pulse-pounding intensity of Lone Survivor and wraps it in a brilliant,
  cutting-edge plot that will keep you on the edge of your seat . . .  
  Tata truly is the new Tom Clancy. Turn off your phone, lock your doors, and
  jump into the phenomenal new book that everyone is going to be talking about.”
  
  
  —Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Black List
  
  
    
  
  
  “Tata writes with a gripping and a gritty authority rooted in his matchless
  real-life experience, combining a taut narrative with an inside look at the
  frontiers of transnational terrorism. The result is so compelling that the
  pages seem to turn themselves.”
  
  
  —Richard North Patterson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of In the Name
  of Honor
  
  
    
  
  
  “General Tata’s story mixes high-threat combat with an intriguing and
  surprising mystery...