Rob Maylor

'A rare beast in this genre, this is an honest, insider's account of the dark arts of sniping and special forces' - Herald Sun In SAS Sniper, Rob Maylor takes us inside the closed world of the Australian Special Forces - it's tough to get in, but the fighting that follows is even tougher... Royal Marine...SAS marksman...Elite soldier... Rob Maylor has seen action in the world's most dangerous combat zones. From East Timor and Iraq to Afghanistan, he has been places where no-one else wants to go. He was there when a Black Hawk helicopter crashed, drowning two of his mates. He was there at Australia's biggest battle in Afghanistan when a Taliban ambush left him shockingly wounded. He has walked for hours, sometimes days, through hostile country until he has found the right position, sometimes more than a kilometre away from this target, then when the moment is right he aims, and with absolute precision, puts the bullet just where it is going to have the most effect... This is a gritty, no-holds-barred behind-the-scenes look at life on the front line from an elite SAS sniper. 'A chilling glimpse of the hazards encountered by SAS troops' - Daily Telegraph '[A] macho memoir of a special-forces badass' - Kirkus Reviews, USA

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SAS Sniper

Robert Macklin

A gritty, no-holds-barred, behind-the-scenes memoir of life as one of the world's top snipers Sniper Elite takes readers inside the closed world of the elite Special Forces sniper, detailing the dark art of sniping and touching on the history of the world's greatest marksmen. As one of Australia's most highly trained and successful combat marksmen, Rob Maylor tells the story of his years on the front lines, from his early service with the Royal Marines in Northern Ireland to action in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he was involved in some of the heaviest fighting in the conflict. He also chronicles his near-death experience in a Blackhawk helicopter that crashed off Fiji, killing two of his friends, and how he would walk for hours, sometimes days, through hostile country until he found the right position. Then, when the moment was right, he aimed-and with absolute precision, put the bullet just where it was going to have the most effect. Filled with dark humor and the almost-religious sense of brotherhood within such an exclusive group of warriors, this is an explosive and revealing combat memoir-and an inside look at the shadowy world of the modern sniper. "Maylor toured the world, enduring surprisingly grueling exercises from the Arctic to the jungle...training, horseplay and nuts-and-bolts military minutiae along with the usual fireworks." -Kirkus Reviews

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