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Sniper: Inside the Hunt for the Killers Who Terrorized the Nation

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Sniper is the behind-the-scenes story of one of the most frightening rampages to occur in U.S. history—and how it was stopped.

For more than three weeks, the nation watched in disbelief as Washington, D.C., and its surrounding suburbs were held hostage by anonymous gunmen shooting innocent civilians at random.
Sniper is the definitive account of those alleged gunmen, John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, and the massive manhunt that ended with their capture by a heavily armed SWAT team in an early-morning raid at an interstate highway rest stop.

Two
Washington Post reporters, Sari Horwitz and Michael E. Ruane, retrace the steps of Muhammad and Malvo from their first meeting on the island of Antigua to Malvo’s defiant confession in a Virginia jail. Drawing on exclusive reporting about that confession, internal police documents, and a wide range of law-enforcement sources, Horwitz and Ruane track in remarkable detail the murderous trail Muhammad and Malvo are accused of having followed to the Washington area and reconstruct the eerie way in which the two moved invisibly around the nation’s capital in the midst of one of the largest police investigations in U.S. history.

Horwitz and Ruane also take you inside the police command center where local and state police, joined by the federal government’s most experienced crime fighters, worked desperately to stop the killings, unaware that a fundamental error—investigators were wrongly fixated on a white van—was allowing Muhammad and Malvo to slip through the dragnet. We meet FBI negotiators, veteran detectives, forensics experts, prosecutors, and politicians who faced perhaps the biggest challenge of their careers as they confronted frustrating setbacks, logistical nightmares, and the overwhelming pressure of a high-stakes investigation. In a fast-paced narrative that outdoes even the most acclaimed television cop shows,
Sniper recounts the extraordinary police work that enabled investigators to quickly exploit the clues handed to them by Muhammad and Malvo that finally led to their arrest.

Part gripping drama, part real-life portrait of law enforcement at work,
Sniper is also a cautionary tale about the vulnerability of American society in an age of terrorism.


Editorial Reviews

Review

"A good deal of new information...By the end...I was sorry to have to stop reading–always a good sign." -The Washington Post

From the Inside Flap

Sniper is the behind-the-scenes story of one of the most frightening rampages to occur in U.S. history and how it was stopped.

For more than three weeks, the nation watched in disbelief as Washington, D.C., and its surrounding suburbs were held hostage by anonymous gunmen shooting innocent civilians at random.
Sniper is the de?nitive account of those alleged gunmen, John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, and the massive manhunt that ended with their capture by a heavily armed SWAT team in an early-morning raid at an interstate highway rest stop.

Two
Washington Post reporters, Sari Horwitz and Michael E. Ruane, retrace the steps of Muhammad and Malvo from their ?rst meeting on the island of Antigua to Malvo s de?ant confession in a Virginia jail. Drawing on exclusive reporting about that confession, internal police documents, and a wide range of law-enforcement sources, Horwitz and Ruane track in remarkable detail the murderous trail Muhammad and Malvo are accused of having followed to the Washington area and reconstruct the eerie way in which the two moved invisibly around the nation s capital in the midst of one of the largest police investigations in U.S. history.

Horwitz and Ruane also take you inside the police command center where local and state police, joined by the federal government s most experienced crime ?ghters, worked desperately to stop the killings, unaware that a fundamental error investigators were wrongly ?xated on a white van was allowing Muhammad and Malvo to slip through the dragnet. We meet FBI negotiators, veteran detectives, forensics experts, prosecutors, and politicians who faced perhaps the biggest challenge of their careers as they confronted frustrating setbacks, logistical nightmares, and the overwhelming pressure of a high-stakes investigation. In a fast-paced narrative that outdoes even the most acclaimed television cop shows,
Sniper recounts the extraordinary police work that enabled investigators to quickly exploit the clues handed to them by Muhammad and Malvo that ?nally led to their arrest.

Part gripping drama, part real-life portrait of law enforcement at work,
Sniper is also a cautionary tale about the vulnerability of American society in an age of terrorism.


From the Hardcover edition.

Reviews:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT

E. · March 6, 2022

A throrough and definitive account. To be read in conjunction with Reichenbaugh's "The Hunt for the Beltway Snipers" which brilliantly records the very intensive work by the Police and other agencies. But it's the Horwitz and Ruane book that brings home the full horror of these crimes - who the victims were, how they were attacked and the effects on their friends and families. Trite slogans like "Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime" were exploded by Muhammad and Malvo. Nothing can "cause" what they did.

5.0 out of 5 stars The true story of a pair of drifters who terrorized the D.C. area for 23 days.

R.J. · April 7, 2008

What is the face of evil? In this sniper case, the faces are two - a 15-year-old boy and a man old enough to be his father. They are ordinary faces; yet they methodically killed and wounded as many as 5 people a day without mercy. Their movements were random, frustrating police and FBI agents. Acting on mistaken information of a white van, the officials floundered - clueless, while the pair remained invisible and deadly - shooting from a small hole in the truck of a dark blue Caprice. All around them a tempest roared.Authors Horwitz and Ruane tell us chapter by chapter what happened, who the killers were, who the victims were, and how they ultimately were captured.

4.0 out of 5 stars Fast paced, great read

G. · October 8, 2003

This book is a much beter read that "Three Weeks in October". The reporting is well put together and reads smoothly. It lacks a little bit of perspective that would have come from more time elapsing after the case evolved, but that is a minor criticism.Overall, a pretty good book with some good inside information that is also a well paced read.

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Chronology, but little else

M. · May 22, 2013

Would have liked to have seen the reporters go into more detail about motives etc with both of the perpetrators. You get no deeper understanding of why this happened from the book.

5.0 out of 5 stars Non stop

k. · September 5, 2018

This was a very dark and detailed book that almost made you feel you were there.

5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars

B. · July 24, 2016

Comprehensive account of the events leading up to and including the events of these domestic terrorist attacks.

5.0 out of 5 stars White van caused havoc

B. · July 15, 2008

The book by MCP Chief Charles Moose,"Three Weeks in October," tells about what happened during the sniper terror that gripped the Washington Metro area. But "Sniper," tells a whole lot more about what actually happened. The exact locations of the murders and woundings, the way the victims died, the way they were shot. It takes you step by step with the crime solvers and with the snipers. Daily, you find out what really happened, where it happened and why over 250 law enforcement officials were so baffled and had a difficult time capturing the snipers. I live within minutes of many of the crime scenes and I will tell you that my entire family was terrified. It changed our lives, made us jumpy when we went outside. Pumping gas was a real horrific event too. But the book also tells of the heroes such as Chief Moose, who was just about at the end of his rope and showed his humanity with tears at the shooting of a student. Of course Captain Barney Forsythe, who spent long hours, above and beyond his duty day, trying and stave off the killers is too a hero. If you want to have a good idea of what it was like during those harrowing days in October, read this book. The fine authors, from the Washington Post, tell it just the way it happened. I hope that we never ever have to deal with the fear that was thrust upon us in Montgomery County and the areas surrounding us again. But in these times, one never knows what the day will bring. Also, remember that the police are not here to protect us. They are here to uphold the laws.Kudos to "nine-Henry-ten."

1.0 out of 5 stars Library copy

M. · August 13, 2020

Library copy, should be mentioned before buying

When guns go wild

D.B. · February 21, 2021

About yet another dark chapter in US's love affair with guns. Good read and well constructed

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Product ID: U034547662K
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Type: Mass Market Paperback

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Description:

Sniper is the behind-the-scenes story of one of the most frightening rampages to occur in U.S. history—and how it was stopped.

For more than three weeks, the nation watched in disbelief as Washington, D.C., and its surrounding suburbs were held hostage by anonymous gunmen shooting innocent civilians at random.
Sniper is the definitive account of those alleged gunmen, John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, and the massive manhunt that ended with their capture by a heavily armed SWAT team in an early-morning raid at an interstate highway rest stop.

Two
Washington Post reporters, Sari Horwitz and Michael E. Ruane, retrace the steps of Muhammad and Malvo from their first meeting on the island of Antigua to Malvo’s defiant confession in a Virginia jail. Drawing on exclusive reporting about that confession, internal police documents, and a wide range of law-enforcement sources, Horwitz and Ruane track in remarkable detail the murderous trail Muhammad and Malvo are accused of having followed to the Washington area and reconstruct the eerie way in which the two moved invisibly around the nation’s capital in the midst of one of the largest police investigations in U.S. history.

Horwitz and Ruane also take you inside the police command center where local and state police, joined by the federal government’s most experienced crime fighters, worked desperately to stop the killings, unaware that a fundamental error—investigators were wrongly fixated on a white van—was allowing Muhammad and Malvo to slip through the dragnet. We meet FBI negotiators, veteran detectives, forensics experts, prosecutors, and politicians who faced perhaps the biggest challenge of their careers as they confronted frustrating setbacks, logistical nightmares, and the overwhelming pressure of a high-stakes investigation. In a fast-paced narrative that outdoes even the most acclaimed television cop shows,
Sniper recounts the extraordinary police work that enabled investigators to quickly exploit the clues handed to them by Muhammad and Malvo that finally led to their arrest.

Part gripping drama, part real-life portrait of law enforcement at work,
Sniper is also a cautionary tale about the vulnerability of American society in an age of terrorism.


Editorial Reviews

Review

"A good deal of new information...By the end...I was sorry to have to stop reading–always a good sign." -The Washington Post

From the Inside Flap

Sniper is the behind-the-scenes story of one of the most frightening rampages to occur in U.S. history and how it was stopped.

For more than three weeks, the nation watched in disbelief as Washington, D.C., and its surrounding suburbs were held hostage by anonymous gunmen shooting innocent civilians at random.
Sniper is the de?nitive account of those alleged gunmen, John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, and the massive manhunt that ended with their capture by a heavily armed SWAT team in an early-morning raid at an interstate highway rest stop.

Two
Washington Post reporters, Sari Horwitz and Michael E. Ruane, retrace the steps of Muhammad and Malvo from their ?rst meeting on the island of Antigua to Malvo s de?ant confession in a Virginia jail. Drawing on exclusive reporting about that confession, internal police documents, and a wide range of law-enforcement sources, Horwitz and Ruane track in remarkable detail the murderous trail Muhammad and Malvo are accused of having followed to the Washington area and reconstruct the eerie way in which the two moved invisibly around the nation s capital in the midst of one of the largest police investigations in U.S. history.

Horwitz and Ruane also take you inside the police command center where local and state police, joined by the federal government s most experienced crime ?ghters, worked desperately to stop the killings, unaware that a fundamental error investigators were wrongly ?xated on a white van was allowing Muhammad and Malvo to slip through the dragnet. We meet FBI negotiators, veteran detectives, forensics experts, prosecutors, and politicians who faced perhaps the biggest challenge of their careers as they confronted frustrating setbacks, logistical nightmares, and the overwhelming pressure of a high-stakes investigation. In a fast-paced narrative that outdoes even the most acclaimed television cop shows,
Sniper recounts the extraordinary police work that enabled investigators to quickly exploit the clues handed to them by Muhammad and Malvo that ?nally led to their arrest.

Part gripping drama, part real-life portrait of law enforcement at work,
Sniper is also a cautionary tale about the vulnerability of American society in an age of terrorism.


From the Hardcover edition.

Reviews:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT

E. · March 6, 2022

A throrough and definitive account. To be read in conjunction with Reichenbaugh's "The Hunt for the Beltway Snipers" which brilliantly records the very intensive work by the Police and other agencies. But it's the Horwitz and Ruane book that brings home the full horror of these crimes - who the victims were, how they were attacked and the effects on their friends and families. Trite slogans like "Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime" were exploded by Muhammad and Malvo. Nothing can "cause" what they did.

5.0 out of 5 stars The true story of a pair of drifters who terrorized the D.C. area for 23 days.

R.J. · April 7, 2008

What is the face of evil? In this sniper case, the faces are two - a 15-year-old boy and a man old enough to be his father. They are ordinary faces; yet they methodically killed and wounded as many as 5 people a day without mercy. Their movements were random, frustrating police and FBI agents. Acting on mistaken information of a white van, the officials floundered - clueless, while the pair remained invisible and deadly - shooting from a small hole in the truck of a dark blue Caprice. All around them a tempest roared.Authors Horwitz and Ruane tell us chapter by chapter what happened, who the killers were, who the victims were, and how they ultimately were captured.

4.0 out of 5 stars Fast paced, great read

G. · October 8, 2003

This book is a much beter read that "Three Weeks in October". The reporting is well put together and reads smoothly. It lacks a little bit of perspective that would have come from more time elapsing after the case evolved, but that is a minor criticism.Overall, a pretty good book with some good inside information that is also a well paced read.

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Chronology, but little else

M. · May 22, 2013

Would have liked to have seen the reporters go into more detail about motives etc with both of the perpetrators. You get no deeper understanding of why this happened from the book.

5.0 out of 5 stars Non stop

k. · September 5, 2018

This was a very dark and detailed book that almost made you feel you were there.

5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars

B. · July 24, 2016

Comprehensive account of the events leading up to and including the events of these domestic terrorist attacks.

5.0 out of 5 stars White van caused havoc

B. · July 15, 2008

The book by MCP Chief Charles Moose,"Three Weeks in October," tells about what happened during the sniper terror that gripped the Washington Metro area. But "Sniper," tells a whole lot more about what actually happened. The exact locations of the murders and woundings, the way the victims died, the way they were shot. It takes you step by step with the crime solvers and with the snipers. Daily, you find out what really happened, where it happened and why over 250 law enforcement officials were so baffled and had a difficult time capturing the snipers. I live within minutes of many of the crime scenes and I will tell you that my entire family was terrified. It changed our lives, made us jumpy when we went outside. Pumping gas was a real horrific event too. But the book also tells of the heroes such as Chief Moose, who was just about at the end of his rope and showed his humanity with tears at the shooting of a student. Of course Captain Barney Forsythe, who spent long hours, above and beyond his duty day, trying and stave off the killers is too a hero. If you want to have a good idea of what it was like during those harrowing days in October, read this book. The fine authors, from the Washington Post, tell it just the way it happened. I hope that we never ever have to deal with the fear that was thrust upon us in Montgomery County and the areas surrounding us again. But in these times, one never knows what the day will bring. Also, remember that the police are not here to protect us. They are here to uphold the laws.Kudos to "nine-Henry-ten."

1.0 out of 5 stars Library copy

M. · August 13, 2020

Library copy, should be mentioned before buying

When guns go wild

D.B. · February 21, 2021

About yet another dark chapter in US's love affair with guns. Good read and well constructed

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