SHOOTER: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE TOP-RANKED MARINE SNIPER

SHOOTER: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE TOP-RANKED MARINE SNIPER Gunnery Sgt. Jack Couglin is a divorced father of two with an Ivy League background who grew up in the wealthy Boston suburb of Waltham. He had 36 kills in Iraq--13 in a 24-hour period during Operation Iraqi Freedom--and has one of the most successful records of any sniper on active duty.Now, after 20 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.WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING:"[Jack Coughlin] is one of the best snipers in the Marine Corps, perhaps the very best. When I asked one of his commanders about his skills, the commander smiled & said, "I'm just glad he's on our side." -- Peter MaasABOUT THE AUTHOR:Gunnery Sgt. Jack Coughlin was with the Third Battalion, Fourth Marines during the 2003 drive to Baghdad & has operated on a wide range of assignments in hotspots around the world.Capt. Casey Kuhlman left the Marines after the Iraq War and has taken a year off to write and come to grips with what he has seen and done. He intends to go to law school.Donald A. Davis is the author of three New York Times bestsellers. Gunnery Sgt. Jack Coughlin, USMC & Capt. Casey Kuhlman, USMCR with Donald A. Davis, ISBN: 0-312-33685-3 publish date: 05/15/2005