Gunnery Sgt. Jack Coughlin is the Marine Corps top-ranked sniper. Shooter is his harrowing and very human first-person account of one mans battle to remain sane and hold his family together while personally bringing Americas military muscle to the enemys front door. Coughlin is also a divorced father of two who grew up in a wealthy Boston suburb. At the age of nineteen, although he had never even held a gun, he joined the Marines, and would spend the next twenty years behind the scope of a long-range precision rifle. In that time, he accumulated one of the most successful sniper records in the Corps, ranging through many of the worlds hotspots. During Operation Iraqi Freedom alone, he recorded at least thirty-six kills, thirteen of them in a single twenty-four hour period. This highly personal story about his deadly craft, takes you deep inside an invisible society that is off-limits to outsiders.