Shooter
Subtitle: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: April 28, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780312336851
Subjects: History; Biography / Autobiography; Historical - U.S; Military; Military - United States; History / Military / United States; Biography; Coughlin, Jack; Iraq War, 2003-; Marine Corps; Personal narratives, American; Snipers; Sniping (Military science); United States
First sentence: At another time, on another battlefield, my radio call sign had been "Gabriel," because the archangel and I have a lot in common.
Description: With more than sixty confirmed kills, Gunnery Sgt. Coughlin is the Marine Corps' top-ranked sniper. A divorced father of two who grew up in a wealthy Boston suburb, he had never even held a gun when he joined the Marines, but would spend the next twenty years behind the scope of a long-range precision rifle. In that time he accumulated one of the most successful records in the Corps, ranging through many of the world's hotspots. Now he has written a highly personal story about his deadly craft, taking readers deep inside an invisible society. 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.--From publisher description.