Running the Maze
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Publisher Description
Marine Gunnery Sergeant Kyle Swanson is sent into Pakistan, where an international team of medical workers has been executed in order to cover up a deadly terrorist secret.
In the aftermath of great floods, a doctor on a relief mission in northeastern Pakistan discovers the remains of a collapsed bridge that reminds him of a bridge near his childhood home in Ohio. He snaps a mobile phone picture and sends it to his sister, just before his entire team is slaughtered.
His sister is Beth Ledford, a Coast Guard sniper, who suspects that the answer to the mystery of her brother's death is in that cellphone picture. No one believes her until she finds Swanson and the secret special operations team known as Task Force Trident. When Kyle takes Beth into Pakistan to investigate, they find the true secret behind the mass murder - what may be the last, best hope of victory by al-Qaeda and the Taliban over allied forces.
Now the two snipers have their sights set on one man, an American diplomat who has become the biggest obstacle to victory in the war on terror. The only question is: which of them gets to pull the trigger?
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Shortly before the Taliban massacre nine U.N. doctors and nurses on a mission to treat Pakistani flood victims in Coughlin and Davis's exciting fourth Sniper novel (after 2010's Clean Kill), the team's leader, Joseph Ledford, e-mails a photo of a collapsed trestle bridge to his sister in the U.S., Beth Ledford, a crack Coast Guard sniper. After official Washington balks at investigating the incident, Beth winds up seeking help from sniper legend Gunnery Sgt. Kyle Swanson and his secret special operations team, Task Force Trident. The contrast between the culture of the conventional military with that of the black ops community adds to the drama as Beth and Kyle seek justice in Pakistan. Complicating the situation is a psychopathic killer with some surprising connections to Washington. Former Marine sniper Coughlin stretches but does not strain credulity in this intricate story that aptly illustrates the maxim "no plan survives contact with the enemy."
