Game of Snipers
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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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