Comanche Sniper

Book I In The Comanche Sniper Series

By: James Mullins

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

War made him a sniper. Heritage made him a hunter.

Cade Parker is the grandson of the last Comanche war chief. Raised on hard land and harder lessons, he’s spent his life protecting what’s his until one brutal night at home forces him into the U.S. Army and into a war he never asked for.

In Operation Torch, Cade lands on hostile shores and learns that WWII isn’t heroic, it’s mechanical, filthy, and hungry. With his spotter Ortega at his side, Cade becomes the weapon commanders rely on when an advance stalls and men start dying for inches of rock.

Then Tunisia delivers something worse than an artillery barrage.

A German sniper who kills with intention. He focuses on targets that matter, shots that break units, and a calling card left behind as proof he was there and that he’ll return.

Each encounter tightens the circle, and every shot costs more. When the final duel comes, Cade must fire the one bullet that ends the conversation or become the next mark in someone else’s ledger.

Comanche Sniper is the opening salvo in a new WWII series of sniper warfare, brotherhood, and the price of becoming what the world fears you already are.

This book started off great but became underwhelming once the military portion started.

I liked the story but felt like the AI reader was pretty bland and the book was very repetitive. The same points, phrases, and character descriptions were used over and over.

Lost Opportunity

The author forgot to crack the history books and thus barely put holes in paper much less in the black. It’s pretty clear the author knows very little about WWII and not a whole lot about firearms. Some evidence of this includes writing about revolvers ejecting brass when fired; crosshairs on M1903A1rifles with iron sights; the characters smelling diesel fumes in trucks when the US used virtually no diesel engines in WWII; totally mischaracterizing how basic training worked in that day and finally using the concept of sniper teams at least 20 years before it was doctrine. Coulda been good tale but the many lapses of detail kept popping me out of the story.