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The Master Sniper by Stephen Hunter
Very Good Condition Original 1980 First Edition with Dust cover. See offer Pictures!!!
From the book flap:
London, 1945. It has become evident to an office-bound American intelligence analyst, James Leets of the OSS, that deep within the Third Reich one last operation is being planned. Leets doesn't know much but what he does know terrifies him: it will involve a special man and a special rifle. The man is Repp, of the Waffen SS, of Totenkopf, the Death's Head Division—Repp, whose bravery and resolve are legen-dary, and who is called the "Master Sniper." Repp is the very best in his profession. But the stakes involved are huge, even for Repp. "He's going to kill somebody. Somebody big," Leets tells his boss, Tony Outhwaithe of British Intelligence. "He's going to snipe him." But who? Thus begins an extraordinarily suspense-ful journey across the face of a war and into the deep part of the human heart where the will to murder lurks. Leets and his team —the acerbic Outhwaithe, Roger Evans, a callow Harvard boy, and Shmuel, a death-camp ref-ugee, one of the few men on earth to have stood on the far side of the rifle from Repp and survived — begin to track the German. Their quest takes them to the front and to the morgue, through a frightening night airborne assault, to the pit's edge at a concentration camp, and through the labyrinths of the Third Reich. The cost is high, and the time is short. And Repp, for his part, is under the same great pressure: he must supervise the modi-fication of the sophisticated weapon — code-named Vampir—that makes his operation possible, knowing all the while he is being hunted and that at any moment attack may come. When it does, his only chance is to flee across a shattered Germany, where by an ironic trick he becomes the quarry not only of his hunters but of the SS as well. But Repp has the motivation. At that moment when he cups the scope to his eye and draws back the bolt, he feels himself a Force of History. For him the mission is a last consecration. Leets knows better. He knows it's the final blasphemy. The Master Sniper is impeccably re-searched and beautifully written. It is one of those rare thrillers that creates a whole world and peoples it with characters about whom we come to care desperately. Its last mo-ments are among the most intense and compelling in the literature of suspense. This is Stephen Hunter's first novel.
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Publisher William Morrow
Publication date January 1, 1980
Language English
Product Dimensions 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight 3 pounds
Book length 292
ISBN-10 0688035914
ISBN-13 978-0688035914
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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. 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. 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. And when they finally learn the truth, the Second World War's deadliest race against time is on....
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From Publishers Weekly
In the spring of 1945, Lieutenant-Colonel Repp, the titular sharpshooter of this compelling thriller, has been charged by his Nazi superiors in the collapsing Third Reich to commit a particularly despicable assassination. 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. 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.
Product Description
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. 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. 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. And when they finally learn the truth, the Second World War's deadliest race against time is on....
Review
"Hunter is a deft craftsman with a sure sense of pace and scene. He also knows about irony and sprinkles just a bit over every corpse."-- The Washington Post
"Mesmerizing suspense..."-- Kirkus
From the Publisher
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. 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. 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. And when they finally learn the truth, the Second World War's deadliest race against time is on...
"Hunter is a deft craftsman with a sure sense of pace and scene. He also knows about irony and sprinkles just a bit over every corpse."--The Washington Post
"Mesmerizing suspense..."--Kirkus
From the Inside Flap
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. 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. 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. And when they finally learn the truth, the Second World War's deadliest race against time is on....
From the Back Cover
"Hunter is a deft craftsman with a sure sense of pace and scene. He also knows about irony and sprinkles just a bit over every corpse."-- The Washington Post
"Mesmerizing suspense..."--Kirkus
About the Author
Stephen Hunter has written eighteen novels. The retired chief film critic for The Washington Post, where he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, he has also published two collections of film criticism and a nonfiction work, American Gunfight. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Publisher Unknown
Publication date January 1, 1996
Product Dimensions 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight 3 pounds
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About the author
Stephen Hunter has written eighteen novels, including "I, Sniper" and "Point of Impact". The retired chief film critic for "The Washington Post", where he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, he lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
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