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Kyle Swanson Sniper #8
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He was called to redeem a debt of honour . . .
Top-ranked sniper Kyle Swanson was a promising young Marine on a dangerous peace-keeping mission in Mogadishu, Somalia when he first captured a ruthless warlord known as 'the Cobra'. It could have cost Swanson his life - had it not been for the schoolteacher who risked her own to save him.
Now Swanson is sent on a mission to track down two targets: one is the Cobra, who spent twenty years imprisoned after Swanson captured him and is now back in charge of the Somali underworld, vowing vengeance on the Marine; the other is the grandson of the schoolteacher who once saved his life, who has joined the Cobra's army of terror.
The boy had been swept up in a Detroit-based Somali gang before fleeing back to the protection of the Cobra. His grandmother swears he's innocent, but the CIA tells Kyle to take him out. To find the truth and accomplish his mission, Swanson must return to the one place he had hoped he'd never see again - where the Cobra lies in wait.
307 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 18, 2015
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About the author
Jack Coughlin
17 books281 followersGunnery Sgt. Jack Coughlin’s autobiography, Shooter, describes his experiences as the top-ranked marine sniper in the Iraq War.
Coughlin is also the author, with Donald A. Davis, of the Kyle Swanson Sniper Novels: Kill Zone, Dead Shot, Clean Kill, and An Act of Treason.
Coughlin grew up in Waltham, Massachusetts, and joined the Marines when he was 19. He served with the Marines during the drive to Baghdad and has operated on a wide range of assignments in hot spots around the world.
http://us.macmillan.com/author/jackco...
Coughlin is also the author, with Donald A. Davis, of the Kyle Swanson Sniper Novels: Kill Zone, Dead Shot, Clean Kill, and An Act of Treason.
Coughlin grew up in Waltham, Massachusetts, and joined the Marines when he was 19. He served with the Marines during the drive to Baghdad and has operated on a wide range of assignments in hot spots around the world.
http://us.macmillan.com/author/jackco...
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February 19, 2016
Top-ranked sniper Kyle Swanson was a promising young Marine on a dangerous peace-keeping mission in Mogadishu, Somalia when he first captured a ruthless warlord known as 'the Cobra'. It could have cost Swanson his life - had it not been for the schoolteacher who risked her own to save him.
Twenty years later, many things have changed for Kyle Swanson, his life, his job is about to change , then an old rival and enemy comes back into his life and causes chaos in Minnesota.
Now the battle and the chase is on, in this tremendous book.
My first novel by this author, although I know I have started on "Book 8" on the great character Kyle Swanson, a marine sniper, and one of the best, I know for sure I will have to buy all seven previous books and read.
The character Kyle Swanson is a marine sniper, just like the author Jack Coughlin, so you know you are getting great detail, realistic story, fantastic action, with locations across the world.
Let's just get the facts out why I loved this book.
Told in sections, the first being in 1992, then present time, and then the chase.
Full of gripping tension, fast paced, action packed, thrilling, shocking, strong, realistic.
A great story, that makes me want to read the next story, and the previous seven.
I do not want to say too much on the story, just read it and enjoy !
This author will become one of my favourites if he keeps this standard up, alongside greats like
Mark Dawson, Tom Wood, David Baldacci, Lee Childs, Chris Ryan.
Many reviews have marked and reviewed this has possibly his best book.
I loved it and five stars from me.
Great to find new authors
Twenty years later, many things have changed for Kyle Swanson, his life, his job is about to change , then an old rival and enemy comes back into his life and causes chaos in Minnesota.
Now the battle and the chase is on, in this tremendous book.
My first novel by this author, although I know I have started on "Book 8" on the great character Kyle Swanson, a marine sniper, and one of the best, I know for sure I will have to buy all seven previous books and read.
The character Kyle Swanson is a marine sniper, just like the author Jack Coughlin, so you know you are getting great detail, realistic story, fantastic action, with locations across the world.
Let's just get the facts out why I loved this book.
Told in sections, the first being in 1992, then present time, and then the chase.
Full of gripping tension, fast paced, action packed, thrilling, shocking, strong, realistic.
A great story, that makes me want to read the next story, and the previous seven.
I do not want to say too much on the story, just read it and enjoy !
This author will become one of my favourites if he keeps this standard up, alongside greats like
Mark Dawson, Tom Wood, David Baldacci, Lee Childs, Chris Ryan.
Many reviews have marked and reviewed this has possibly his best book.
I loved it and five stars from me.
Great to find new authors
March 12, 2018
The first part of this book was slow and without an intro into why we were going into the past, seemed unnecessary. It was only through that cumbersome part that you realize why they spent 25% of the book on what became the intro. Grrrr. It was an okay book, not one of the best of his works. I will order #9 and carry on with the series hoping for a better book. You do need to read this one though as it does touch on his final days as a military man.
February 3, 2017
This novel starts with the awful action in Somalia.
Kyle Swanson, in between sniping people, meets a beautiful doctor and falls in love. Of course, she is horribly killed.
20 years later, The Cobra, the man who killed the doctor, is back, with a plan to foster terrorism in the US. He uses the Somali population in Minnesota, to further his plans. Swanson gets on the case, and wastes some wimps.
Not bad.
Kyle Swanson, in between sniping people, meets a beautiful doctor and falls in love. Of course, she is horribly killed.
20 years later, The Cobra, the man who killed the doctor, is back, with a plan to foster terrorism in the US. He uses the Somali population in Minnesota, to further his plans. Swanson gets on the case, and wastes some wimps.
Not bad.
April 1, 2017
To much gore I normally enjoy his stuff, to close to home on the terrorist stuff, when I start to see this stuff on the news.
June 6, 2017
This was one of the better books written by retired Marine Jack Coughlin. I had difficulty putting it down as it was a captivating and very well written story of Kyle Swanson Marine sniper. Kyle Swanson was forced out of the Marines and assigned to a top secret and covert United States counter intelligence agency. The CIA picked him up immediately for they knew he was the best in the business. In the meantime a super sinister terrorist named the Cobra and planned and carried out a terrible attack on the USA Mall in Minnesota. The president took the advice of all his advisors and Kyle Swanson and an FBI cohort were sent in to lead the capture and kill of this Cobra terrorist. Read the book and you won't be able to put it down.
April 23, 2019
Gung-Ho, All American , Marine Sniper Kyle Swanson vs. Muslim Fanatic/Terrorist Omar Jama (The Cobra). Kyle, while serving in Somalia makes an enemy of The Cobra by defeating him and leaving him for dead. The Cobra seeks revenge on Kyle and the US. Years later he shows up in the large Muslim community in Minnesota/Wisconsin and reeks havoc. Who will win...the terrorist Omar or the good guy, now working for the CIA, Kyle?
Night of the Cobra is extremely graphic but adds nothing new to the problem of terrorism and its effect on the US.
Night of the Cobra is extremely graphic but adds nothing new to the problem of terrorism and its effect on the US.
August 17, 2019
This story of Marine sniper Kyle Swanson during his tour of duty in Mogadishu, Somalia, and its resolution decades later begins well. You get a small taste of sniper life and he meets the woman of his dreams. Shortly afterwards you realize that the titular Cobra has plot armor: two instances where he could have been (and definitely should have been) taken out of the picture can't be allowed because then the rest of the story wouldn't unfold. I quickly lost interest at that point. Then it just became a slugfest between me and the words in order to finish the novel.
November 22, 2017
Not a bad book but certainly not the best in the series. It starts out with Kyle in Somalia many years ago while he was still with the Marines. A warlord's second in command kill friends and more of Kyles. Many years later this man gets out of jail an makes it his mission to create terror in the USA and also kill Kyle and the people he loves. Kyle fights back. It was interesting to get some more back story on Kyle and why he is the way he is so many years later.
January 1, 2025
Accidentally read this as my first Kyle Swanson book. Really good.
This one has flashbacks and present day storylines. The flashbacks see Kyle Swanson in the Mog of Somalia in 92 while the main antagonist the Cobra is wilding.
Then present day where Kyle has to deal with a series of attacks in Minnesota arrange by the Cobra. We can see where this storyline goes but I wont spoil it. Worth a read with memorable and tense action scenes especially in the present day story arc.
This one has flashbacks and present day storylines. The flashbacks see Kyle Swanson in the Mog of Somalia in 92 while the main antagonist the Cobra is wilding.
Then present day where Kyle has to deal with a series of attacks in Minnesota arrange by the Cobra. We can see where this storyline goes but I wont spoil it. Worth a read with memorable and tense action scenes especially in the present day story arc.
October 2, 2018
Amazing story, I really liked that the book was divided into three parts. The first part going into explicit detail about the books antagonist, Cobra. Instead of a couple chapter background, Gunny spent about a third of the book going into detail. Parts two and three, get into the Cobra's return and reign of terror throughout the Midwest and Kyle et. al, tracking Cobra dow.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 12, 2022
The adventures of Kyle Swanson - especially this one, where the story flashes back to Somalia in the 1990's and forward to a current day terrorist plot on American soil -is consistently good military fiction written in part by a guy who's been there and done that, in Jack Coughlin. One of my favourite series, shame it appears to have been discontinued.
February 12, 2022
It begins with a flashback, that, like "Without Remorse," it gets gooey at times. And what ever happened to Swanson's first girlfriend Shari Towne?
Spoiler
Kyle get retired from the USMC, and goes CIA, which reminds us of Season 8 of Jack Bauer. Things get reinvented, and we loose all of our old favorites. There is some franchise fatigue,but still an enjoyable read for the fans.
Spoiler
Kyle get retired from the USMC, and goes CIA, which reminds us of Season 8 of Jack Bauer. Things get reinvented, and we loose all of our old favorites. There is some franchise fatigue,but still an enjoyable read for the fans.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 23, 2024
An excellent book
I read this over several evenings, it was difficult to put down. The story had momentum that keeps the reader interested all the way through, a thoroughly good read
I read this over several evenings, it was difficult to put down. The story had momentum that keeps the reader interested all the way through, a thoroughly good read
July 21, 2017
Good thriller
If you like Vince Flynn and that genre, then you will enjoy this series also . Four more words required.
If you like Vince Flynn and that genre, then you will enjoy this series also . Four more words required.
April 23, 2019
I really enjoyed this book. Cobra I totally disliked and he got what deserved. Kyle found love and lost it. I won't say any more because I did fine it to be a very good book.
May 7, 2022
Set in Africa during the collapse of Somalia, the story pits a warlord bodyguard w a marine sniper. The story is slow and uninspired.
March 20, 2023
As usual fast paced. I liked the addition of the new characters and little bits of real people and places.
March 22, 2024
Lang geleden dat ik deze gelezen heb. Wat me er van bijstaat is dat het erg snel wegleest, spannend is, maar bij tijd en wijlen ook wel wat cliché is qua verhaal.
November 12, 2025
I read the previous two books a while back. It's a book that quickly grabbed me. It has a good story and flows nicely with the rest.
March 18, 2016
In dit derde deel gaat het verhaal terug naar 1992 naar de Somalische stad Mogadishu, waar Kyle en zijn collega’s tijdens de vredesmissie een man, de “ Zwarte Cobra” gevangen nemen.
Twintig jaar later werkt Kyle voor de CIA . De Cobra is vrij en nog steeds uit op wraak, hij haat Swanson en wil hem dood hebben. De Cobra gaat zo ver dat hij zelfs een terreurcampagne in de V.S. start en dood en verderf zaait in een groot winkelcentrum.
Kyle krijgt samen met een FBI-collega Lucky Sharif de opdracht de terroristen buiten te houden. Hiervoor moeten ze zelfs terug naar het land waar alles begon…De Cobra wil een machtige krijgsheer worden Mogadishu. Kyle moet daar niet alleen de Cobra zien te verslaan maar hij moet ook persoonlijke trauma’s overwinnen.
Vanaf het begin van het verhaal zit je meteen weer volop in de actie van Kyle en zijn maten. Het boek leest vlot. Als je de andere delen ook gelezen hebt, kan je het karakter van Kyle inmiddels dromen, je weet precies wat hij doet en denkt. Ook het karakter van Lucky komt goed naar voren, door wat hij meegemaakt heeft kan je je goed in hem verplaatsen.
Er is genoeg spanning en actie. Soms zijn er wel momenten waar ik mijn twijfels bij had qua geloofwaardigheid. Het is net té toevallig.. Dat is jammer want het is te voorspelbaar allemaal.
Het plot is goed maar helaas redelijk voorspelbaar.
Toch heb ik dit “mannenboek” weer met veel bewondering voor het Amerikaanse leger gelezen.
Of dit het laatste deel in de serie is, weet ik niet maar als er nog een deel komt, hou ik me aanbevolen om het te lezen.
Twintig jaar later werkt Kyle voor de CIA . De Cobra is vrij en nog steeds uit op wraak, hij haat Swanson en wil hem dood hebben. De Cobra gaat zo ver dat hij zelfs een terreurcampagne in de V.S. start en dood en verderf zaait in een groot winkelcentrum.
Kyle krijgt samen met een FBI-collega Lucky Sharif de opdracht de terroristen buiten te houden. Hiervoor moeten ze zelfs terug naar het land waar alles begon…De Cobra wil een machtige krijgsheer worden Mogadishu. Kyle moet daar niet alleen de Cobra zien te verslaan maar hij moet ook persoonlijke trauma’s overwinnen.
Vanaf het begin van het verhaal zit je meteen weer volop in de actie van Kyle en zijn maten. Het boek leest vlot. Als je de andere delen ook gelezen hebt, kan je het karakter van Kyle inmiddels dromen, je weet precies wat hij doet en denkt. Ook het karakter van Lucky komt goed naar voren, door wat hij meegemaakt heeft kan je je goed in hem verplaatsen.
Er is genoeg spanning en actie. Soms zijn er wel momenten waar ik mijn twijfels bij had qua geloofwaardigheid. Het is net té toevallig.. Dat is jammer want het is te voorspelbaar allemaal.
Het plot is goed maar helaas redelijk voorspelbaar.
Toch heb ik dit “mannenboek” weer met veel bewondering voor het Amerikaanse leger gelezen.
Of dit het laatste deel in de serie is, weet ik niet maar als er nog een deel komt, hou ik me aanbevolen om het te lezen.
September 16, 2016
Cobra
I enjoy all other Kyle Swanson sniper novels and this was no exception. I am looking forward to the next one.
I enjoy all other Kyle Swanson sniper novels and this was no exception. I am looking forward to the next one.
September 9, 2015
Kyle Swanson was a promising young Marine on a peace keeping mission in
Mogadishu when he first captures the Cobra. Twenty years later Kyle
works for the CIA and the Cobra is getting out of prison and he absolutely
hates Kyle. To draw him out the Cobra launches a violent attack against
the U.S. and attacks the second largest shopping mall in America. Kyle
teams up with FBI agent Lucky Sharif whom he had saved as a child in
Somalia and now they must fight the terrorists at home and abroad. The
Cobra retreats to Somalia where he is set to become a powerful warlord
of the bloody al shabaad gang. To block him Kyle must return to Mogadishu
where he must face his own personal nightmares as well as the Cobra who
is waiting. This is book eight in the sniper series and it's a good story
with a lot of action.
Mogadishu when he first captures the Cobra. Twenty years later Kyle
works for the CIA and the Cobra is getting out of prison and he absolutely
hates Kyle. To draw him out the Cobra launches a violent attack against
the U.S. and attacks the second largest shopping mall in America. Kyle
teams up with FBI agent Lucky Sharif whom he had saved as a child in
Somalia and now they must fight the terrorists at home and abroad. The
Cobra retreats to Somalia where he is set to become a powerful warlord
of the bloody al shabaad gang. To block him Kyle must return to Mogadishu
where he must face his own personal nightmares as well as the Cobra who
is waiting. This is book eight in the sniper series and it's a good story
with a lot of action.
September 17, 2020
Jack Coughlin writes a great story about Kyle Swanson a Marine Sniper. This is book 8 for Jack with this character. Sometimes the things you do follow you home, in this case a pissed off warlord who regained power. Lots of action shooting, violence of all kinds to make you hate the Villain including his international terror connections. They roll up on Kyle stateside and he must clean house and then go after the head rat on his home turf. good action book.
September 29, 2015
Marine sniper Kyle Swanson is confronted with an old enemy from his 1992 "peacekeeping" deployment in Somalia. Omar Jama, aka the Cobra, escaped from an African prison and with financial backing is in Minnesota planning a major 9/11 type terrorist attack. This is an outstanding military thriller series that keeps getting better.
October 3, 2015
Back and Forth
Kyle revisits his past, while building his future. We learn about his early sniper activities and lost love, while exploring his post military deployment...
Action, excitement, the bad guys die violently while suffering defeat, the good guys win decisively, but barely. A good read.
Kyle revisits his past, while building his future. We learn about his early sniper activities and lost love, while exploring his post military deployment...
Action, excitement, the bad guys die violently while suffering defeat, the good guys win decisively, but barely. A good read.
March 13, 2016
I wasn't sure I would read another "Kyle Swanson" book again after the last one, however, the author decided to write something that was pretty entertaining this time; although, I know I read a similar plot from another author regarding a terrorist attack at Mall USA.
September 4, 2015
Great Read!
I choose this rating because I had no choice, great read, characters,
Descriptions of scenes city by city were wonderful, just a good read I just could not put down.
Keep up the great writing!
I choose this rating because I had no choice, great read, characters,
Descriptions of scenes city by city were wonderful, just a good read I just could not put down.
Keep up the great writing!
January 18, 2016
A US sniper fights an old foe.
The basic idea for the story was good and some of the action scenes were reasonable, but the plot was too contrived and some of the writing was a bit dodgy, but I’m probably not the target audience, judging by the other ratings this book has been given.
The basic idea for the story was good and some of the action scenes were reasonable, but the plot was too contrived and some of the writing was a bit dodgy, but I’m probably not the target audience, judging by the other ratings this book has been given.
August 4, 2017
Very surprised how much I enjoyed this, even tho its number 8 in the series it didn't seem to matter that I hadn't read the others. I felt the first part of the book was just waiting for the second part,it then took off and ramped up the intensity.
November 9, 2015
Great pacing to the story and a lot of interesting material. For a sniper novel, I would've enjoyed more actual sniping. I enjoyed it nonetheless.
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