Amazing courage | Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper

Author seems to enjoy shooting people a bit too much | Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper | Jack Coughlin, Casey Kuhlman, ...

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	• Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper Jack Coughlin, Casey Kuhlman, ... St. Martin's Griffin, 2006 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 27 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

a great true story.

Despite the braggadicio title,this is actually the autobiography of a humble Marine.Actually the title should say "with over 200 unconfirmed lives saved",but unfortunately this wouldn't sell books.That's the snipers job,to save lives and this marine did it well.I particularly enjoyed the story of how the sniper team was shooting the engine blocks of Iraqi civilians so that they wouldn't drive their cars into a "killing zone".Not to mention how many U.S. boys were saved by the Marine snipers who discovered hidden ambuscades of the Iraqi soldiers and guerillas.There is alot of tension in this book as the Marine makes his instantaneous decision to terminate a life or not.You can literally feel his brain evaluating the threat.He does not take this decision lightly.
This book is the story of a middle class youth who survives the quality control of the Marine sniper schools and rises to the top of his profession through years of war and trials.In the middle of his tour in Iraq he is confronted by a divorce with no support from his homefront family,but still he goes about his job as if nothing was amiss.You have to admire that type of dedication.I really appreciate people like this Marine.This book gives you a healthy respect for our public servants such as the military,police fireman,paramedics,etc. the list is just too long.Underpaid and at times underrespected they go about their jobs on our behalf.

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Amazing courage

I have read different books but this is a special one for me. I have never been in the armed forces but I admire them for having the courage to protect us usually putting their life at risk.
Since the beginning of the book it captured my attention, it made me feel like I was there with Jack, the narrative is so good and I enjoyed it so much that I read the book seven times.
The book describes what life is at the front line where metal meets the flesh, the description he makes is so vivid that aroused all my emotions and sometimes felt very sad when some of the guys died.
It is difficult to describe all the emotions I feel every time I read it, the personal sacrifices he had to make and all people in the armed forces do when they have to go to war.
I do not think they get paid enough or get enough recognition for what they do for the rest of us that watch the war on TV.
To me Jack is a hero.
God bless you Jack.

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Author seems to enjoy shooting people a bit too much

The author/sniper seems to enjoy shooting Iraqis a little too much. Of course, shooting enemies is one of his duties, and he has a right to feel good about doing it well. But the book overflows with cocky statements like "I considered the ill-trained, poorly led soldiers of Iraq to be hamburger in my scope, practically begging me to kill them, and I was more than ready to grant that wish." Still, if you can tolerate the author's apparent machisimo and arrogance, and his constant whining every time his superiors order him to do any job that does not involve shooting, you will get a little piece of action-packed history from the perspective of a person who lived it.

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Fast Moving Story

This is a fast moving story of one Marine during the ground war in Iraq and fall of Baghdad. Coughlin gives a little history on his early life and domestic troubles, but generally skips most of his military service except for the rush to Baghdad.

Would have been a better book if he included more to explain why he considers himself "the top-ranked Marine sniper". As for the ground war in Iraq, he was definitely in the right place at the right time to witness some history (i.e. pulling down Saddam's statue).

The book doesn't justify the title or cover page, but is is still a worthwhile, and fast paced, viewpoint of how the ground war progressed.

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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 twenty years 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 thirty-six kills, thirteen of them in a single twenty-four-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.

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