<DIV><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Few military feats stir the imagination as does the image of the lone hero-marksman, positioned a seemingly impossible distance away from a target he must hit dead-on&#8212;from snipers in the world&#8217;s dry-land hotspots to those on the Navy destroyer Bainbridge who, in April 2009, picked off three Somali pirates holding an American ship captain hostage. <I>Sniper</I> comprises heart-pounding&nbsp;real-life tales about the top front-line snipers in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere around the globe today&#8212;Navy Seals, Silver Star&#8211;winners, long-distance record-holders, and more.&nbsp;Authors Matt Larsen and Gina Cavallaro also provide a close look at sniper schools (the U.S. Army has two of them; the U.S. Marine Corps has another), sniper profiles, and who makes a good sniper.&nbsp; </P></DIV>