Sniper A Novel [Paperback]

The saboteurs? Holy Christ, what happened? What did you do to deserve that? a fellow soldier responds when he hears that Nicolai Lilin has been assigned to an unconventional, ultra-high-risk paramilitary unit of the Russian army. Also nicknamed the para-bats for the black parachutes that dropped them behind enemy lines at night, Lilin and his fellow saboteurs soon find themselves fighting Islamic insurgents armed with American weaponry in the breakaway province of Chechnya.[A] stark and unvarnished portrayal of men in a vicious war.Precise, magnified, and clearlike looking through a sniper scope.Nicolai LilinsGripping and powerfulLilins vivid recounting of how ordinary troops adapt to survive in a messy counterinsurgency resonated with how I saw U.S. troops act in Iraq, and his descriptions of readjustment after coming home rang painfully true. This is a must-read for anyone interested in modern counterinsurgencies.Poised to stand among the great war novels, the harrowing chronicle of a sniper during the Chechen War.