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St. Martin's Press
April 2012
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Featuring: Brandon Webb
400 pages
ISBN: 031260422X
EAN: 9780312604226
Kindle: B0071NMCKA
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Military | Non-Fiction Memoir
BEFORE HE COULD FORGE A BAND OF ELITE WARRIORS… HE HAD TO
BECOME ONE HIMSELF. Brandon Webb’s experiences in the world’s most elite sniper
corps are the stuff of legend. From his grueling
years of training in Naval Special Operations to his combat
tours in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan, The Red
Circle provides a rare and riveting look at the
inner workings of the U.S. military through the eyes of a
covert operations specialist. Yet it is Webb’s distinguished second career as a lead
instructor for the shadowy “sniper cell” and Course Manager
of the Navy SEAL Sniper Program that trained some of
America’s finest and deadliest warriors—including Marcus
Luttrell and Chris Kyle—that makes his story so compelling.
Luttrell credits Webb’s training with his own survival
during the ill-fated 2005 Operation Redwing in
Afghanistan. Kyle went on to become the U.S.
military’s top marksman, with more than 150 confirmed kills.
From a candid
chronicle of his student days, going through the sniper
course himself, to his hair-raising close calls with Taliban
and al Qaeda forces in the northern Afghanistan wilderness,
to his vivid account of designing new sniper standards and
training some of the most accomplished snipers of the
twenty-first century, Webb provides a rare look at the
making of the Special Operations warriors who are at the
forefront of today’s military. Explosive, revealing, and intelligent, The Red
Circle provides a uniquely personal glimpse into
one of the most challenging and secretive military training
courses in the world.
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