“He is the deadliest
American sniper ever, called “the devil” by the enemies he hunted and “the
legend” by his Navy SEAL brothers . . . From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris
Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. The
Pentagon has officially confirmed more than 150 of Kyles kills (the previous
American record was 109), but it has declined to verify the astonishing total
number for this book. Iraqi insurgents feared Kyle so much they named him
al-Shaitan (“the devil”) and placed a bounty on his head. Kyle earned legendary
status among his fellow SEALs, Marines, and U.S. Army soldiers, whom he
protected with deadly accuracy from rooftops and stealth positions. Gripping
and unforgettable, Kyle’s masterful account of his extraordinary battlefield
experiences ranks as one of the great war memoirs of all time. A native Texan
who learned to shoot on childhood hunting trips with his father, Kyle was a
champion saddle-bronc rider prior to joining the Navy. After 9/11, he was
thrust onto the front lines of the War on Terror, and soon found his calling as
a world-class sniper who performed best under fire. He recorded a
personal-record 2,100-yard kill shot outside Baghdad; in Fallujah, Kyle braved heavy fire
to rescue a group of Marines trapped on a street; in Ramadi, he stared down
insurgents with his pistol in close combat. Kyle talks honestly about the pain
of war—of twice being shot and experiencing the tragic deaths of two close
friends. American Sniper also honors Kyles fellow warriors, who raised hell on
and off the battlefield. And in moving first-person accounts throughout, Kyles
wife, Taya, speaks openly about the strains of war on their marriage and
children, as well as on Chris. Adrenaline-charged and deeply personal, American
Sniper is a thrilling eyewitness account of war that only one man could tell..”
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