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Sniper One (Iron Brigade series)

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This piece of fiction is worth your time. It is written by one of the world's foremost authorities on military snipers and is the only technically accurate work of fiction about snipers I have ever come across. It is well written, and hard to put down. The characters are believable and likeable. It is a good companion piece to the author's non-fiction "One Shot Brotherhood"

Sniper One is abounding in lessons for the long distance shooter young and old. Setting you on edge'Sniper One' will keep you reading and asking for more of the same, a must read for those in the business of shooting long and far...

I've read numerous novels and stories through my time, Fantasy would probably be my favorite, yet military titles are not unknown to me. I've also served in the U.S. Marine Corps for more than seven years now in jobs from Force Recon to Photo-Journalist and this book made me feel as if I was there. Right beside "Clicker" in climes and place that I myself have visited, without all the excitement of course. The one thing that struck me first was my inability to put the book down, I haven't felt that since high school when I went through Forgotten Realms' novels like a termite in a toothpick factory. Besides reading Sniper One at a racing pace, I could not miss the attention to detail and accuracy put into this book by an author that obviously wrote on firsthand experiences and had a wealth of "snipers" of quality at his disposal for information. Overall, Sniper One had me at the first few pages as I read about the "stalk" and then it never let me down until the book was finished. Guess I'll have to find another Chandler book to read. Oh darn.

As a Vietnam era Marine Sniper, I found the book right on-target! Excellent information there-in. J. Clifford

Shallow character developement, poor descriptions, and no attempt at pathos. Hopefully this is one of Roy's first efforts at being a author and with practice will work on the style part of being a writer. Reading this book was like reading a Zane Grey novel, entertaining for a 12 year old, but not really something an adult would be satified with. Spend your [money]on a couple of Stephen Hunter novels.