Shooter : The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper

English

ISBN: 0312336853

EAN: 9780312336851

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Military/History / Military / Iraq War (2003-2011)/History / Military / United States/

Publisher: St. Martins Press

Release Date: 05/01/2005

Synopsis: With more than sixty confirmed kills, Jack Coughlin is the Marine Corps top-ranked sniper. Shooteris his harrowing first-person account of a snipers life on and off the modern battlefield G unnery Sgt. Jack Coughlin is a divorced father of two with an Ivy League background who grew up in the wealthy Boston suburb of Waltham. He had thirty-six kills in Iraq- thirteen in a twenty-four hour period during Operation Iraqi Freedom-and has one of the most successful records of any sniper on active duty.Now, after twenty years behind the scope of a long-range precision rifle, Coughlin has written a highly personal story about his deadly craft, taking readers 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 U.S. military today.

Shooter : The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.0 inches

Width: 6.31 inches

Length: 9.5 inches

Weight: 21.16 oz

Pages: 320