Jason Delgado gives you an honest look into his life. I say that because after reading his book he speaks of mistakes he made with his family, his marriage, his wanting to be a better father which many do, focusing on his career in the Marines, especially when he made it into scout sniper, then into MARSCO, where he became lead sniper instructor. I knew at the beginning though when he describes what it was like for him and others arriving at Twenty-Nine Palms, the Marine Base there is different especially for anyone from the city going to the desert. Growing up in the desert and being at that base and others you really would like to be sent somewhere else.
When he begins to speak of his training and then his battle experiences you are brought into other books of the true brotherhood of the Marine Corps and also all of the young men and women who have gone off to fight. He has taken his struggles from the Bronx and shown you how he overcame them to join the Marines to once they’re always looking for the next challenge. He even looks at where maybe he should have stayed. Then he goes back to how he can be better for his children and how he hopes somehow, he can make up for his past mistakes as a parent with his oldest daughter. I felt that this was an honest look at himself and the life he has led so far and an excellence book.

Bounty Hunter 4\3 is a in- depth personal story of Jason Delgado. Just like American Sniper and American wife readers are given a raw look at life in the military and how one choose the career of a sniper.
Jason doesn't sugar coat his life before during the years as a United States Marian Corp Sniper. He doesn't shy away from the personal and emotional times in his life making he a real person readers are able to care about.
Jason tell how he was ready to take on the world during his first days in the war. This ability to describe the battle scenes in Iraq. They are vivid pushing readers to feel almost see what it was like living in a warn torn country.
As the story progress you can feel Jason pain and how it has taken a toll in his life and how it effects him daily.
Just like American Sniper Jason story gives read that Military men have a sense of invincibility. The Marines Corp has the ability to take boys and make them into killing machines to protect their country, family and what they believe in.
Jason pulls readers into his world giving them an opportunity to understand why someone go to war and the physically, emotional and personal toll it takes on everyone.
I have Reader American Sniper, American Wife and now Bounty Hunter 4\3 each one shows readers the cost of war mental only those who see the worst humanity has to offer.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher St. Martin's Press for the advance copy

Jason Delgado has penned an excellent book about his experiences growing up in the Bronx, becoming Marine, a sniper, his experiences in Iraq as a sniper, and about becoming an sniper instructor afterwards. While he leaves no doubt about his alpha male status, he does not shy away from describing many personal experiences, even the ones where he feels he has failed.
Where the book really shines is in his telling of his tours in Iraq. From his gung-ho, supremely driven first days there, to his awakening to the horrors of the war and his part in it. The battle scenes were extremely vivid, fast moving, and made you almost feel you were there. And afterwards, you could really feel his pain.
While sometimes I felt uneasy with his macho take on the world, and how the Marine Corp really promotes this sense of invincibility, I am aware that it is a world I will never understand, and cannot fault it for it's success in creating "supermen" like Delgado. Other times, I really felt bad for him, when he had to face up to the fact that the rest of the world (his relationships, for one) did not subscribe to the same outlook.
All in all, an excellent book. I just cannot get over the horrors he faced in Iraq, in battles that we here at home never were even told about. And I thank him for his service.

Bounty Hunter 4/3 is the latest in a string of personal accounts written by special forces soldiers, and other military personnel recounting their experiences in the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is the tale of Jason Delgado, a Marine sniper who was involved in the thick of some of the deadly warfare which took place in the city of Husaybah.

It is in the vein of autobiographies like Chris Kyle’s American Sniper, and others, and is a very personal look at what it takes to be a special forces operative on the front lines. The book begins with the author growing up in The Bronx, and the events which led him to signing up as a Marine, and then going through the arduous training required to become a Scout Sniper. I am not saying that some of the other accounts glamourise this experience by any means, but Delgado brings a very down to earth viewpoint at the bloody nature of the business of war. By his own admission he embarked on this journey with something of an unrealistic expectation of what it took, however through his training he had this stripped away.

As an on-the-ground viewpoint, Bounty Hunter 4/3 focuses primarily on the very real, gritty experience of warfare on the street. Danger lurks around every corner, and there is a sense of the powerlessness he felt in being unable to take action to protect the locals, or the brotherhood he was fighting alongside. The downside is that it can be difficult to get a sense of the battlefield as a whole, and the author acknowledges that not many people remember the name of Husaybah, where a significant portion of the action takes place in the latter half of the book.

It is undeniable that there is a personal cost for anyone who goes to war. The author had to witness the deaths, and maimings of many of his comrades in arms, which he had to bear psychologically when he returned home. I think this is the greatest strength of the book, that going beyond the outer bravado, and spitshined image of warriors marching off to war, there are injuries which go beyond the visible. Bounty Hunter takes us inside the head of one such warrior, and into his personal family life which had to bear the cost as well.

As mentioned before, this is not the first book which covers some of this territory, but it is a highly personal, intriguing look at the life of a US Marine sniper. I enjoyed reading the book, and found it quite moving in places.