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  1. Cover
  2. TITLES BY STEPHEN HUNTER
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. PART 1
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  72. Acknowledgments
  73. About the Author
  74. What’s next onyour reading list?

I met Craig when shooting something (on film!) for another boon companion, Michael Bane, and his Outdoor Channel Gun Stories crew. For some reason, he finds it amusing when I start jabbering away and likes to turn the camera on. Don’t ask me why. On the same trip, I also met the great firearms historian and all-around movie guy (he knows more than I do) Garry James, who has become a pal. Gentlemen three, God bless them all.

In Baltimore, the usual suspects came to my aid. First, my friends John Bainbridge, Lenne Miller, and Gary Goldberg were diligent and thorough on my behalf. Why, I cannot say. Meanwhile, Mike Hill and Jim “Six Days of the Condor” Grady had useful insights and enthusiasm, as did Bill Smart and Barrett Tillman. And in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, my good friend Dave Dunn, owner of Trop Gun Shop, offered me cigars, bourbon, and deals—all important to morale. In Baltimore, Ed De Carlo, maître d’, majordomo, and NCOIC of On Target, kept my shooting life running smoothly. In L.A., old pal Jeff Weber pitched in as usual. Thanks to all, and particularly to Lenne, who also had a major health crisis to deal with but stayed on course.

Professionally, the great Esther Newberg supervised the shift from the late house of Blue Rider to the very much alive house of Putnam, and editor Mark Tavani added his guidance. My wife, the great Jean Marbella, made the coffee that pulled me from the sticky miasma of old man’s psychedelic dreamworld every morning and got me upstairs to the writing machine. Without that coffee, I’m the bitter crank whining to strangers in grocery store lines about what might have been.

And finally: did I steal the excellent title Game of Snipers from the immensely successful Game of Thrones series by George Martin? Sure. Why would I not?

About the Author

Stephen Hunter is the author of more than twenty 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. His novel, Point of Impact, was adapted for film as Shooter, starring Mark Wahlberg, and aired as a TV series. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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