Reviews for Trigger Men: Shadow Team, Spiderman, The Magnificent Bastards, and the American Combat Sniper

The average rating for Trigger Men: Shadow Team, Spiderman, The Magnificent Bastards, and the American Combat Sniper based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-10-18 00:00:00 Antoine Savolainen I hope nobody minds if I chime in here -- I wrote TRIGGER MEN and like to see what people say about my books. Perhaps some of you might like to know the story behind the book: TRIGGER MEN is what we call in the Army an "after-action review" and "lessons-learned" document. I got the idea for the book after listening to MAJ Charles Greene's war stories while I was spending some time with 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry, 4th ID, at Fort Hood in 2002. Charles was the Ops Officer at the time but had previously been a member of the legendary 75th Ranger Regiment and had parachuted into Panama as a sniper during OPERATION JUST CAUSE. His stories of his little part of the fight and about his engagements during the fight for the airfield got my attention directed to the sniper mission,and I pitched a proposal for a book on the topic to my beloved editor at St. Martin's Press, Marc Resnick. SMP bought the idea and I spent the next couple of years working on it. I love war stories for several reasons and use them often in my books. For one thing, I like to use the voice of the person who pulled the trigger to tell the story in his own words, not re-interpreted by me. So that's why there are a lot of first-person stories in TRIGGER MEN -- James Gilliland, Harry Martinez, Charles Greene, and the others each share their own experiences, and you very seldom have the opportunity to hear somebody explain how they carefully put a bullet in another human being, and why...and how they feel about it. The hardest thing about building the book was finding snipers with kills who would talk to me...and who were not frauds. The problem of fraudulent military claims is huge and I ran into several liars during this project. I think there are more fraudulent snipers around than even Navy SEALs, and there are LOTS of those. The number of American snipers is extrmely small so that made the problem challenging. And then, within that number, the group who had made kills was a small subset. Then, within that group, the ones who would talk to me was tiny. But I was able to get about twenty to cooperate, sorted one total liar out of the mix, and got a good variety of experiences that I thought worked well. There were two basic reasons that these guys agreed to share thier stories with me. The first was that they knew I was a combat veteran who had fired at people and had been fired upon. The other was that I followed a US Army Sniper School class through all of its training and understood the Army version of the mission at least in its "schoolhouse" foundations. TRIGGER MEN was published four years ago and has been quite successful. Oprah still hasn't reviewed it but I keep hoping. I give the book five stars because I like the combination of voices and stories and topics. Your mileage may vary, of course, but it is one of my favorite projects of my 67 titles.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-05-01 00:00:00 Richard Scott Ellwood This book is about my dad and i am reading this and i love it Because I want to be a Sniper. Awesome book to learn what it is like to be a sniper and how much training and rules for snipers.