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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Wounded in combat and honorably discharged nine years ago, Jack Daley still suffers nightmares from when he served his country as a sniper, racking up sixteen confirmed kills. Now a struggling author, Jack accepts an offer to write a near-future novel about a serial killer, based on a Hollywood script outline. It's an opportunity to build his writing career, and a future with his girlfriend, Kit Majors. But Jack's other talent is also in demand....
2) Soft target
Author
Series
Ray Cruz novels volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A follow-up to "Dead Zero" finds retired marine sergeant Ray Cruz confronting a band of terrorists who have taken over the Mall of America, where they begin to systematically execute more than one thousand hostages.
3) Crosshairs
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
NYC detective Michael Bennett teams up with a former Army Ranger and sniper whose long, unexplained absences from duty causes suspicions during the investigation of a serial killer.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A fictional account of the war in Chechnya against the Russians as told by a member of an elite military unit known as the "saboteurs, " who penetrate enemy lines on killing missions while still trying to maintain their humanity.
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
Ex-military investigator Jack Reacher is called in by James Barr, a man accused of a lethal sniper attack that leaves five people dead, and teams up with a young defense attorney to find an unseen enemy who is manipulating events.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Scarpetta finds herself in the unsettling pursuit of a serial sniper who leaves no incriminating evidence except fragments of copper. The shots seem impossible, yet they are so perfect they cause instant death. The victims appear to have had nothing in common, and there is no pattern to indicate where the killer will strike next. First New Jersey, then Massachusetts, and then the murky depths off the coast of South Florida, where Scarpetta investigates...
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 10
Language
English
Description
After a steel case is found in the foundation of the old Arkansas homestead, Bob Lee Swagger investigates what happened to his grandfather Charles Swagger, who died before he was born.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Special Agent Alexandra Martel is pulled back into the dangerous world she left behind when an old friend, an MIS officer, is murdered, drawing her into a terrifying conspiracy involving nuclear weapons and must fall back on her Special Ops skills to stop the unthinkable and keep the world safe.
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 26
Language
English
Description
A leader has fallen, and the procession route from Capitol Hill to the White House is lined with hundreds of thousands of mourners. None feel the loss of a President more keenly than Alex Cross, who has devoted his life to the public good. A sniper's bullet strikes a target in the heart of DC. Alex Cross's wife, Bree Stone, newly elevated chief of DC detectives, faces an ultimatum: solve the case, or lose the position for which she's worked her entire...
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Bob Lee Swagger is approached by a woman who lost a son to war and has spent the years since risking all that she has to find the sniper who pulled the trigger, he knows right away he'll do everything in his power to help her. But what begins as a favor becomes an obsession, and soon Swagger is back in the action, teaming up with the Mossad, the FBI, and local American law enforcement, as he tracks a sniper who is his own equal and attempts to...
Author
Language
English
Description
In the death throes of World War II, one man is still at war, and he’s got got the world’s deadliest weapon in his hands . . .
With a sniper’s rifle he has calmly executed hundreds of enemy soldiers in a single battle, and gunned down thousands of innocent civilians in a single day, waiting patiently for the barrel of his gun to cool before resuming his craft . . .
It is the spring of 1945. And Repp, the...
With a sniper’s rifle he has calmly executed hundreds of enemy soldiers in a single battle, and gunned down thousands of innocent civilians in a single day, waiting patiently for the barrel of his gun to cool before resuming his craft . . .
It is the spring of 1945. And Repp, the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper--a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. When news of her three hundredth kill...
Author
Series
Elite volume 68
Publisher
Osprey Military
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A ninety-thousand-ton aircraft carrier. Six thousand men onboard. A killer in their midst. And the disgraced Navy SEAL who will track him down... The high-octane debut thriller from the New York Times bestselling writing team of former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb and John David Mann. When Navy SEAL sniper Finn steps on board the USS Abraham Lincoln, adrift in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, it's immediately clear something is wrong. It's been a long...
Author
Series
Earl Swagger novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"July, 1944: The lush, rolling hills of Normandy are dotted with a new feature--German snipers. From their vantage points, they pick off hundreds of Allied soldiers every day, bringing the D-Day invasion to its knees. It's clear that someone is tipping off these snipers with the locations of American GIs, but who? And how? General Eisenhower demands his intelligence service to find the best shot in the Allied military to counter this deadly SS operation....
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