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When the Killer Man Comes

Eliminating Terrorists As a Special Operations Sniper

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This program includes a foreword written and read by Nicholas Irving.
The thrilling combat memoir by special operations sniper Paul Martinez, who spent seven years in Special Operations and was a sniper assigned to 3rd Ranger Battalion.

America has one force with the single mission of direct action to capture or kill the enemy. That force is the 75th Ranger Regiment. Staff Sergeant Paul Martinez was a Ranger Sniper with the 75th Rangers during the desperate fighting in Afghanistan in 2011 when the United States made the decision to try to withdraw from Afghanistan.
It was never going to be easy. There were still a large number of senior Taliban and al Qaeda leaders and other terrorists in secure locations throughout that country. If the United States withdrew from Afghanistan with these terrorists and their networks still intact, they could quickly take over the country and undo all the gains that we made.
These terrorists needed to be eliminated, and there was only one force to do it—the Rangers. The mission was to capture or kill as many of these terrorists as possible. Paul Martinez was one of the deadliest snipers assigned to this unit, dubbed "Team Merrill," after the Marauders of World War II fame. Martinez and his fellow Rangers faced near-impossible odds taking on an enemy who knew they were coming and who employed every conceivable tactic to kill these Rangers.
In When the Killer Man Comes, Martinez tells the harrowing true story of how he and his team hunted America's enemies in an operation that would have repercussions that are still felt today.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 27, 2018
      In this detail-heavy combat memoir, Martinez, a retired Army Ranger sniper, speaks frankly about his experiences serving in Afghanistan in 2011, when his unit, Task Force Merrill, was dispatched to deal with terrorists affiliated with
      the Taliban and other organizations. Episodically covering various encounters and missions, Martinez comments on his frustration with the rules of engagement that dictate how American soldiers respond to any given threat, the occasional futility of their actions, and more. His prose ranges from dry and technical, with lengthy explanations of military jargon and parlance, to almost intimate and cinematic when relating battle scenes. One compelling sequence involves Martinez and his team playing cat and mouse with a Chechen sniper—in a fictional account, there would be some sort of dramatic resolution; here, as fits real life, that closure never comes. Martinez’s straightforward, conversational approach works well for the material; part after-action review part personal recollection, it captures the blend of tedium and peril in military life. The confident, thrill-seeking, and patriotic Martinez, who nicknames his M110 rifle “Miss America,” gives readers a revealing look into the mindset of a sniper who’s seen his fair share of combat. Agent: John Silbersack, Trident Media Group.

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