The Master Sniper
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (796 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003YJEZYQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 206 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
It falls to Jim Leets, an American small-arms intelligence agent, to unravel the mystery of Repp's new weaponry and sinister assignment. With his fully realized characters, from the depressed but determined sleuth Leets to the ruthlessly dutiful Repp, Hunter (Black Light) has crafted an engrossing and vividly written tale that touches on the nascent Zionist movement and Allied indifference to the Holocaust on its intriguing path to a tense and satisfying climax. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. Aided by the deadly creativity of German military engineering, Repp, a cold-blooded killer, hones his skills on hapless death camp inmates before embarking on his mission, which will imprint the dark ideals of Nazism on the postwar world. . From Publishers Weekly In the spring of 1945, Lieutenant-Colonel Repp, the titular
JOHN HARRIS said Master Writer - Master Sniper. I'm a huge Stephen Hunter fan; I discovered him through the Bob Lee Swagger books. When I ordered this one I didn't realize it was one of his earlier books (1980) but was not disappointed. The writing is good, economical but has a few twists that are telegraphed pretty early that you. der Meisterschutze (The Master Sniper) A very good action book, especially if you like WWII stories & snipers!The story starts a little slow, flipping back and worth between the German sniper Repp and the American officer Leets and his British counterpart Outhwaithe, but kicks into high gear and never lets up a few chapte. Master novel Just a guy in Oregon Hunter does a great job setting this novel back in the time of WW2. Character and plot development is good. Action is very fast paced. I did find some of the combat situations a bit implausible but then I have never partaken of that particular pastime myself-certainly not in WW2. The
But what was the nature of the weapon that Repp was to aim--and who was to be his last target? Allied Intelligence officers Leets, from the U.S., and Outhwaite from England are dispatched to identify and abort his lethal mission. But one man escapes and becomes the key to solving the mystery of the cold, calculating Kommandmant Repp and his plans for ending the war.Repp was the master sniper whose deadly talent had come to the notice of British Intelligence as the linchpin of a desperate Nazi plot to reverse the fortunes of the Third Reich at the eleventh hour. It is the spring of 1945, and the Nazis are eliminating all the witnesses to their horrible crimes, including Jews and foreigners remaining in the prison camps. Kommandant Repp, who is known as a master sniper, decides to hone his sniping abilities by taking a little target practice at the remaining laborers in his own prison camp. And when th