The 100th Kill

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Quiet, independent, and deadly, Johnny Able is a Marine sniper willing to stop for nothing and no one even with a target on his back and a secret that could end it all as he faces his one hundredth kill of the Vietnam War in this gripping military novel. Nicknamed Dog for his almost superhuman ability to sniff out his prey, Johnny Able, a single-minded kid from Muskogee, is a certified legend fighting in Vietnam during a war that produces few legends.With a bounty on his head and not a fiber of fear in his body, Johnny commands terror from the enemy and awe from the men fighting beside him. As quiet as he is deadly, Johnny is concealing a shattering secret that only war can tear from a man soul ; a secret so explosive it may make his one hundredth kill the deadliest of all.Told with a distinguished military historian attention to authenticity and the dramatic imagination of a storyteller, Charles W. Sasser does it again with this riveting war novel offering a fascinating, rarely-glimpsed side of the Vietnam war that is tough, raunchy, gritty, and surprisingly tender (Military History Magazine).

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