Running the Maze: A Sniper Novel

Sgt. Jack Coughlin · Donald A. Davis

Mar 2012 · Kyle Swanson Sniper Novels Book 5 · Sold by St. Martin's Press

About this ebook

In the latest high-intensity thriller in the New York Times bestselling sniper series, Marine Gunnery Sergeant Kyle Swanson is sent into Pakistan, where an international team of medical workers has been executed in order to cover up a deadly terrorist secret.

In the aftermath of great floods, a doctor on a relief mission in northeastern Pakistan discovers the remains of a collapsed bridge that reminds him of a bridge near his childhood home in Ohio. He snaps a cellphone picture and sends it to his sister, just before his entire team is slaughtered.

His sister is Beth Ledford, a Coast Guard sniper, who suspects that the answer to the mystery of her brother's death is in that cellphone picture. No one believes her until she finds Swanson and the secret special operations team known as Task Force Trident. When Kyle takes Beth into Pakistan to investigate, they find the true secret behind the mass murder—what may be the last, best hope of victory by al-Qaeda and the Taliban over allied forces.

Now the two snipers have their sights set on one man, an American diplomat who has become the biggest obstacle to victory in the war on terror. The only question is: which of them gets to pull the trigger?

Ratings and reviews

Not bad, but not as good as the others. I enjoyed all other Kyle Swanson books and got them all, but this one doesn't feel like it lived up to them. I would also have liked it if this were available in audiobook format.

The story lines are good, but there is a bit too much that doesn't track from one story to the next. Example being that Delara and Swanson aren't together anymore in book 4-which is fine-but she's also in books 2 and 3 so it would've been good to at least tie off their relationship before he and Carson get into it. I can buy that one ending a bit better at the end of book 4 but it was still pretty thin. Then all of the sudden we forgot in this book what Swanson's callsign is? Who is shaky? He is shake..wtf?

Good filler. Techniques not as well explained.

About the author

GUNNERY SERGEANT JACK COUGHLIN was with the Third Battalion, Fourth Marines during the drive to Baghdad and has operated on a wide range of assignments in hotspots around the world. DONALD A. DAVIS is the author of 23 books, including multiple New York Times bestsellers.

Donald A. Davis is co-author of New York Times bestseller Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper and author of Lightning Strike: The Secret Mission to Kill Admiral Yamamoto and Avenge Pearl Harbor. He lives outside Boulder, Colorado.