The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers (32 page)

Two weeks after my deployment, I immediately entered the International Sniper Competition at Ft. Benning, Georgia, placing top five.

Observing an Afghan village with Pemberton during our five-day recon.

My buttstock from Afghanistan, 2009. 33 ticks marking EKIA.

About the Authors

Nicholas Irving spent six years in the Army’s Special Operations Third Ranger Battalion 75th Ranger Regiment, serving from demolitions assaulter to Master Sniper. He was the first African American to serve as a sniper in his battalion and is now the owner of HardShoot, where he trains personnel in the art of long-range shooting, from Olympians to members of the Spec Ops community. He lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Gary Brozek has coauthored nearly twenty books, including five
New York Times
bestsellers.

This is a true story, though some names and details have been changed.

THE REAPER.
Copyright © 2015 by Nicholas Irving. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

www.stmartins.com

Cover design by Lisa Pompilio

Cover photographs © Nicholas Irving

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The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.

ISBN 978-1-250-04544-7 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-4668-4407-0 (e-book)

e-ISBN 9781466844070

First Edition: January 2015