Nicholas Irving became the first African American sniper assigned to the Army's Third Ranger Battalion, which had fought in Somalia in the historic "Black Hawk Down" mission.
His autobiographer, The Reaper, was released this week and coincides with the controversy over the hist film, American Sniper, about the most lethal sniper in US history.
Irving's fascinating story tells of his bloody final tour in Afghanistan that made him a legend and earned him the nickname, "Reaper," after he set a record for enemy kills on a single deployment.
His first-person account of his development into an expert assassin offers a rare view of special operations combat missions through the eyes of a Ranger sniper during war.
