The Killing School

The bestselling author of "Among Heroes" brings readers inside the U.S. Naval Special Warfare (SEAL) Scout/Sniper Course. Brandon Webb, a SEAL sniper school graduate who returned to the program to redesign it and launch it into the twenty-first century. Webb takes readers through every aspect of the Spec Ops sniper's skill set, describing how students are taught in each dimension of their art, illustrated with first-hand trainee accounts. But training is only half the story. Webb also shows how this training plays out in the field, using gripping, real-life exploits of the world's top snipers, demonstrating how today's sniper is trained to function as an entire military operation rolled into a single individual - an army of one. Print run 150,000.