Night of the Cobra: A Sniper Novel

by Jack Coughlin, Donald A. Davis Narrated by Luke Daniels

Overview

Night of the Cobra is an enthralling audiobook in the bestselling Kyle Swanson sniper series by Gunnery Sgt. Jack Coughlin with Donald A. Davis about an American warrior is called to redeem a debt of honor in Somalia amid haunting personal nightmares.

Top-ranked sniper Kyle Swanson was a promising young Marine on a dangerous peace-keeping mission in Mogadishu when he first captured "the Cobra" and a life-long blood feud began.

Twenty years later, Kyle works for the CIA while the Cobra emerges from prison to become an efficient killing machine, and has never slackened his hatred for Swanson. To draw out his ultimate target, the Cobra launches a violent campaign against the United States and attacks the second-largest shopping mall in America.

Kyles teams with FBI agent Lucky Sharif, whom Swanson had saved as a child in Somalia, and they must fight through terrorists at home and abroad to stop his old enemy. The Cobra retreats to Somalia, where he is set to become a powerful warlord and leader of the bloody al Shabaab terror gang. To block him, Swanson must return to the daunting streets of Mogadishu--where he must face his personal nightmares, as well as the Cobra, who lies in wait.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Kyle Swanson returns for his boldest and best adventure yet. . . . Coughlin and Davis' series only gets better with each installment. Series fans will devour this one, but new readers will enjoy it just as much, as knowledge of prior novels in the series is not required. A great military thriller for anyone with a little time to kill.” —Booklist (starred review) on Time to Kill

“The latest Kyle Swanson sniper thriller might be the best yet. . . . Quickly paced and tightly written, this one is a definite winner for all fans of the military action thriller.” —Booklist on Running the Maze

“Coughlin and Davis (An Act of Treason, 2011, etc.) hit the action-adventure 10-ring again.” —Kirkus Reviews on Running the Maze

“Will leave readers cheering.” —Publishers Weekly on Clean Kill

“The latest Kyle Swanson sniper thriller might be the best yet. . . . Quickly paced and tightly written, this one is a definite winner.” —Booklist on Running the Maze

“Coughlin and Davis hit the action-adventure 10-ring again.” —Kirkus Reviews on Running the Maze

“A strong and compelling narrative. Coughlin and Davis have concocted another winner that should only encourage a growing readership. ” —Booklist on Clean Kill

Kirkus Reviews

2015-06-01
Marine Corps gunner Kyle Swanson saves the world from yet another band of terrorists. In the eighth volume of retired Marine sniper Coughlin and Davis' series (On Scope, 2014, etc.), Swanson gets a new piece of back story: during the 1990s, he served in a military hospital in Somalia, where he found love with an Irish nurse. Just as she accepted his marriage proposal, she was killed in a raid by Somalian warlord Omar Jama, alias the Cobra, whom Swanson captured and sent to prison. For reasons that are never explained, the Cobra walks free 20 years later, still seething with hatred for America in general and Swanson in particular. Now leading his own group of terrorists, the Cobra turns up in Minneapolis and carries out the deadliest attack on U.S. soil since 9/11, killing 500 civilians in a shopping-mall bombing. Kyle has to chase his quarry back to Somalia and revisit the scene of the original attack, but there's no suspense about the outcome. Previous volumes of the Swanson series gave the hero some moral ambiguity and made him more three-dimensional, but that's not the case here, as the story is drawn in stark black and white. The good guys stand tall and are invariably football fans; the bad guys say things like "I intend to put ‘terror' back into the word ‘terrorism.' " Much like Swanson's dispatch of the Cobra, the book's execution is precise and well-practiced, and a bit too routine.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169427813
Publisher:	Macmillan Audio
Publication date:	08/18/2015
Series:	Kyle Swanson Sniper Series , #8
Edition description:	Unabridged

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