Comments on: 1980: Master Sniper

By: rob sawyer

rob sawyer — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:29:08 +0000

tried repeatedly to get this book read all the others ! ideas please

By: Gwynne Krenek

Gwynne Krenek — Sat, 14 May 2011 20:27:11 +0000

I would love to purchase this and other Stephen Hunter books for my kindle. Can you tell me which ones are available?

By: Eric Harper

Eric Harper — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:18:50 +0000

“Casey at the Bat” is a great short story and excellent prequel to The Master Sniper. I would LOVE to see more WWII action thrillers featuring Leets and company. There aren’t enough books in that genre being published anymore, and Hunter clearly has a grasp on what it takes to write a good one.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 04:00:15 +0000

The first Hunter novel I read and I think it’s his best. ‘Point of Impact’ is a close second.
The reason I like ‘Master Sniper’ is because of the way its events seem to just happned, one small pebble rolls down the hill and suddenly you have a landslide.
I don’t think Cpt. Leets had any idea what he was getting himself into when he was handed the first queery and since he had ‘served his time’ he didn’t have to bother with it. But he did.
I don’t think Repp was as well developed as Leeds, although he was as important. A pretty stereotyped Nazi with a special talent as a sniper.

By: Zach

Zach — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:32:00 +0000

I also noticed some influence on this novel from The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway especially in the female charcters(plus Hemingway has a cameo). It seems plausible since it’s one of Hemingway’s more well known works and Hunter has admitted his childhood hero was, in fact, Hemingway. Both great reads.

By: Zach

Zach — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:29:25 +0000

Just finished this book and I’ve gotta say that James Leets was probably my favorite hero that Hunter has written. I could connect to him the most because he was such a deeply flawed and almost anti-heroic character. Repp was also amazingly well constructed for a villain. This battle of wits was a great read. Can’t wait to read the short story about Leets because he’s a great character. This is definately an underrated novel and it’s one of Hunter’s finer works.

By: charlie piercey

charlie piercey — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:28:23 +0000

would like to have a printable list of all novels.i am a collector

By: Timon

Timon — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:15:41 +0000

This is a very good book and a lot of the ideas seem to of been ‘borrowed’ in the film ‘Enemy at the Gates’. Nonetheless it’s an interesting debut novel that (I daresay) shows the influence of Thomas Harris (who Hunter admitted he used to be a fan of). A lot of pedants on Amazon.com seem to take issue with a number of historical/technical points but they seem to missing the point of this book-which is that it is a well crafted and engaging thriller.

By: Brian Lee

Brian Lee — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:29:32 +0000

The original title for this book was “The Anger of the Sniper”, as can be seen from uncorrected proofs.

For awhile there was controversy over primacy of publication: some book-sellers touted the UK edition as the true first. This appears to no longer be the case, as the US edition is recognized as having been published prior to its UK counterpart. Nevertheless, the dust-jacket for the UK book is more attractive than that on the American publication, in my opinion.

By: Georgiana

Georgiana — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:07:21 +0000

Suggest you put your Amazon link(s) on the front page of the site. I ordered “The Master Sniper”–from Amazon earlier today–but did not find the link that would have earned you a few rupees until many hours later.