With more than sixty confirmed kills, Gunnery Sergeant Jack Coughlin is the Marine Corps' top-ranked sniper, the man who personally brings America's military muscle to the enemy's front door. Shooter is his harrowing first-person account of a sniper's life on and off the modern battlefield. At the age of nineteen, Coughlin joined the Marines and spent the next twenty years behind the scope of a long-range precision rifle as a sniper. In that time, he accumulated one of the most successful sniper records in the Corps, ...
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With more than sixty confirmed kills, Gunnery Sergeant Jack Coughlin is the Marine Corps' top-ranked sniper, the man who personally brings America's military muscle to the enemy's front door. Shooter is his harrowing first-person account of a sniper's life on and off the modern battlefield. At the age of nineteen, Coughlin joined the Marines and spent the next twenty years behind the scope of a long-range precision rifle as a sniper. In that time, he accumulated one of the most successful sniper records in the Corps, ranging through many of the world's hot spots. During Operation Iraqi Freedom alone, he recorded at least thirty-six kills, thirteen of them in a single twenty-four-hour period. Now Coughlin has written a highly personal story about his deadly craft, taking listeners deep inside an invisible society that is off-limits to outsiders. This is not a heroic battlefield memoir but the careful study of an exceptional man who must keep his sanity while carrying forward one of the deadliest legacies in the US military today.
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This is a well written novel that gives an insight to what the war was really like for snipers.
RonG
Aug 20, 2009
American History-a personal accounting
Valor is alive and well in the USA as long as the young men and women depicted in this story exist.
A good reminder that Freedom is not Free, and that there are those among us who will carry the burden.
western
Mar 25, 2008
insight into the iraq war
when i purchased this book i was hoping to find out what was going on in the iraq war. i was surprised to know how the U.S. Marines opperate. This book give an excellent perspectiveabout the war from someone who experianced it first hand. if you want to find out what its like in war or as a modern Marine then you should deffinetly get this book.
