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From 1999 to 2009, US Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the highest number of career sniper kills in US military history. The Pentagon officially confirmed over 150 kills by Kyle (the previous American record was 109), but cut back to verify the 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 SEAL companions, Marines, and US Army soldiers, whom he protected with deadly accuracy from rooftops and stealthy 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 pilot before joining the Marines. 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 speaks honestly about the pain of war—of being shot twice and experiencing the tragic deaths of two close friends.
American Sniper also honors Kyles' fellow warriors, who raised hell both on and off the battlefield. And in moving through the first-person accounts, Kyles' wife, Taya, speaks openly about the strains of war on her 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.
