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The latest novel featuring CIA sniper Kyle Swanson has him in a tight bind, with hardly anyone to trust. A close friend is killed, and when Swanson attends the funeral, a terrorist attack blows up the grave site. Later, when Swanson meets with a man named Luke Gibson in Germany, they are both surprised by a grenade. Who is after Swanson and why? As he searches for answers, he realizes he can't even trust the CIA, since the man behind the attacks on Swanson apparently has a reach inside government. Further complicating matters, the assassin on Swanson's tail, former CIA shooter Nicky Marks, might be just as good, if not even better, than Swanson himself when it comes to sniper skills. This series has been first-rate since the first book, and Coughlin and Davis continue the streak here, with another pulse-racing mystery thriller starring a hero who thinks almost as well as he shoots. Loyal fans will note the surprise ending, which suggests the series may be drawing to a close, and hope that they are just being teased.--Ayers, Jeff Copyright 2017 Booklist

Publishers Weekly
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Coughlin and Davis's entertaining 10th Sniper novel (after 2016's Long Shot) finds CIA operator Kyle Swanson in San Luis de la Paz, Mexico, attending the funeral of pal Mickey Castillo of the Mexican Marines, when a bomb explodes as the casket is being lowered into the grave. Series fans may remember that Mickey was married to Beth Ledford, who was not only a member of Kyle's old black-ops unit Task Force Trident but a love interest of Kyle's before she gave up on him and married Mickey. The bombing is the opening salvo in a plan hatched by a mysterious drug lord known as the Prince, whose goal is to murder Kyle and destroy the CIA. Kyle takes some time to identify the mastermind, but once the lines are drawn, Kyle shifts into high gear and shows the Prince that, for all the man's skills, he's just one more in a line of killers who will sooner or later be getting his butt kicked by the indomitable Kyle. Some readers might wish for a more formidable foe next time. (Aug.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Kirkus
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Marine-turned-CIA sniper Kyle Swanson is back to take on two targets at once, the Taliban and the Mexican drug cartels.Swanson's friend and sometime partner Elizabeth "Coastie" Castillo retired from duty and married a Mexican former Marine at the end of the last installment. Now she's newly widowed in a mysterious machine-gun attack, and her husband's funeral is disrupted by a grenade explosion. The evidence points to Russian agent Nikola Markovitch, a Russian spy who worked for the CIA under the name Nicky Marks but has lately become involved in an alliance between the Taliban and the cartelsboth of whom have long-standing grudges against Swanson. As he chases Marks from Europe to Afghanistan, Swanson is partnered with Luke Gibson, a suspiciously gung-ho young agent whose background may not be as clean as it looks. Meanwhile Swanson looks after Coastie's rehabilitation but doesn't realize she's coming a little unhinged, avenging her husband's death with a series of unauthorized sniper attacks on drug traffickers. As usual in this series, the unresolved relationship of Swanson and Coastie provides the story's most interesting human element. Coughlin and Davis (Long Shot, 2016, etc.) have the action/revenge formula down to a science, making this another enjoyable if predictable page-turner. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.