The Master Sniper (Unabridged)
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3.3 • 4 Ratings
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- $25.99
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- $25.99
Publisher Description
With a sniper’s rifle he has calmly executed hundreds of enemy soldiers in a single battle, and gunned down thousands of innocent civilians in a single day, waiting patiently for the barrel of his gun to cool before resuming his craft…
It is the spring of 1945. And Repp, the master sniper, is about to carry out his final mission – even as Germany’s enemies overrun it, even while a tired, disorganized team of American and British agents tries everything in its power to stop him. Because for Repp, this is the job at which he cannot fail. For this time, he possesses the ultimate killing tool. And with it, he will commit the ultimate crime.
Customer Reviews
The Master Sniper
The narrator, Christopher Lane, does a passable job with most of the American characters. That is, unless he tries to protray New York or Jersey accents - pretty lame. And his German and Jewish accents are pathetic and in most places unintelligible. Even his pronunciation of German words is a joke. He should have stuck to American accents when the German characters were speaking; at least the listener could have understood what they were supposed to be saying. I had to buy a printed copy of the book just to understand the dialog between German and Jewish characters. For future books, Stephen Hunter should shell out the extra dough and get a master narrator like George Guidall. He's the best, bar none, with foreign accents. Anyone else attempting to render foreign characters needs to avoid trying to depict their accents and just go with American english dialect.
The story line is OK but Hunter departs from the main plot to cover an exhibition tennis tournament in Paris. What that departure has to do with the main plot, I have yet to discover, although I'm not yet finished with the book. So for now I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and not accuse him of writing filler material.