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Book Review of Shooter : The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper

Shooter : The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper
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Jack Coughlin is the Marine Corps top ranked sniper, the man who personally brings America's military muscle to the enemy's front door. In 20 yrs of active service, he has accumulated one of the most impressive records in the corps, ranging through many of the world's hot spots. During operation Iraqi Freedom alone, he recorded at least 36 kills, 13 of them in a single 24 hour period. In Shooter, 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 as he carries forward one of the deadliest legacies in the U.S. Military.