This is the latest book by Stephen Hunter. He wrote Point of Impact, the book that the movie Shooter was based on. I, Sniper is another book featuring Bob Lee Swagger, the main character in Shooter. This is the first of his books that I have read but it's very good. Obviously, it is heavily gun related, all of it fairly accurate.

The only thing that stood out to me was the statement repeated in the book that the 168 SMK is the snipers 30 cal bullet of choice. It's been my experience that most people who shoot in distances that can be measured by odometers, think the 168 is not so hot, especially over 800 yards. Most folks I know that shoot SMK's shoot 155's or 175's. The other was that that same 168 was "traveling at a blistering 2300 FPS." Hmmph, that bullet is easily capable of 2700 fps.

This book had lead characters that were quite obviously supposed to be Jane Fonda, Ted Turner, Bernadine Doern and Bill Ayers. In addition, the guy who is supposed to be the killer sniper is named Carl Hitchcock, a marine sniper who had the most kills in Vietnam. I wonder how he got license to make these characters follow those they were so obviously based on, especially Hitchcock.

Anyhow, great action, heavy firearms action and very realistic firearms action. I give it two thumbs up for OSR related fiction.

Carl Hitchcock, Carlos Hathcock, I don't see where you're going with this. :blackflipoff2:

Names and likeness can be used in paraody. You can also use charcters derived in other works by other authors, It just has to be a unique body of work.

All the other Stephen Hunter books have been good reads too, check out Lee Child's 'Jack Reacher' series if you like the genre.

Thanks for the heads up. I was wanting to give it a go.

The author was recently articled by American Rifleman. He's a lifetime NRA member who wrote for TWP and was partially shunned by other columnist because of his gun views and shunned by gun owners because of who he worked for. NRA I believed published a few of his articles too

check out Lee Child's 'Jack Reacher' series if you like the genre.

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I stumbled across a few of Jack Reacher series, and ended up reading them all:D
A little far fetched in here or there, but overall good action/adventure.