Description:
Aaron Longbaugh is a 22-year-old soldier trained in the lethal art of being a sniper. He's working for a top secret military unit when he learns that his revered Army Major father wasn't really killed in action in Vietnam 10 years before; he was in fact murdered by 9 of his own men, who were never tried or charged. That's the premise of Jim Silver's tough and intelligent thriller, in which a young man trades in a myth of military heroism for the equally dangerous one of justified revenge. Working as a police sharpshooter, Aaron finds ways over the ensuing years to locate and remove seven of the men who killed his father. Then, as he is ready to finish what he sees as his life's work, other factors take aim at Aaron: the possibility of love, and someone coming dangerously close to uncovering his secret. Silver, who has a military background and works for an insurance company, fills his book with accessible expertise about both areas. Along with a moving and credible story and characters of unusual depth, Kill Zone stands as a testament to the physical and psychological attributes needed to be a sniper--a God-like dealer in instant long-range mortality. --Dick Adler
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