- Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Pocket; Reprint edition (Jan 1 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0671528173
- ISBN-13: 978-0671528171
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 11.4 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 91 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #878,298 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Slickly paced suspense, droll humor and extreme violence are deftly balanced in Thayer's (Ringer) new thriller, a tale of sniper vs. sniper that's the literary equivalent of shooting the rapids in a tiny canoe. Manhattan-based federal prosecutor Owen Gray loses his big case against mob boss Carmine "Chinaman" De Sallo, but the don loses an even bigger stake when he's shot dead at the post-trial press conference-by a rifleman stationed several blocks away. Gray's good friend, NYPD detective Pete Coates, draws the case and taps into Gray's experience as a Marine sniper in Vietnam to pinpoint the high-rise firing site. There, the cop finds the shooter's "signature," a shell with a red ring painted on it. When the shell is identified as Russian-made, Gray and Coates turn to the beautiful Adrian Wade, a State Department security expert stationed in Moscow, to help ID the sniper; he turns out to be the mentally unstable Nikolai Trusov, who long ago was bested by Gray in Vietnam and who's now come to the States to force the ultimate grudge match. After Trusov plays nasty cat to Gray's mouse, including threatening the lawyer's adopted children, Gray lures the Russian to his childhood ranch in the wilds of Idaho for a shooters' showdown; meanwhile, Coates and Wade set up every high-tech trap possible against Trusov. But the Russian outsmarts his electronic trackers, setting the stage for a duel in a granite-ridged valley that is soon stained with both men's blood. Featuring reasonably believable plot devices and characters, as well as some informative sniper lore and witty banter to periodically relieve the tension, this deft thriller should win Gray a new host of fans.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Owen Gray is a New York City district attorney and the adoptive father of three orphaned Asian children. Previously, Gray was the premier marine sniper in Vietnam, where he was credited with 96 kills. The past is mostly forgotten, though, at least until a Mafia chieftain standing with Gray in front of a courthouse is killed by a sniper. Days later, a petty crook is shot through the head while Gray is walking with him toward a waiting police van. Unbeknownst to Gray, the sniper is a figure from his past who nearly drove him to suicide. What starts as seemingly random violence on the streets of New York is actually an invitation to a deadly duel between the world's two best snipers. This latest suspense yarn from the author of Pursuit (LJ 3/1/86) provides plenty of excitement for action fans and their libraries.
--Charles Michaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, Mass.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
--Charles Michaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, Mass.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Totally absorbing from the start, and a plot that gets more puzzling until it is all brought togther in an unsurpassed and thrilling climax. Well written story that keeps the pages turning.
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Fantastic! Would be even Great if edited better.,
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Want to know how juicy the sniping is? This is the one in addition to all of Stephen Hunter's "Earl Swagger Saga". I'v translated this one into Chinese and have published it in Taiwan. During the translation, I've found lot of mistakes, draggings, holes of this book, but I would not blame Mr. Thayer but his not so qualified editor, because those mistakes were just how incompetent the editor was who should not have paired with a great writer. Mr. Thayer has proved himself a multi-layer, multi-dimentional most talented writer and he's continuedly improved himself during the Odyssy of his story tellings and would not border or bond himself in a narrow and small territory. This is one of the books that I've collected and strongly recommanded to others.
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good but,
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this is good book, but the end would never happen. The story line is also not plausible. The book is boring in spots.But still a very good read
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