Life in the Balance

Bounty Hunter 4/3: My Life in Combat from Marine Scout Sniper to MARSOC – Jason Delgado and Chris Martin

Over the course of the past few years there has been a steady stream of books and biographies detailing the lives, training and heroics of special operations soldiers. They range from battlefield tails (American Sniper), to life changing events (Lone Survivor) and even leadership books (Extreme Ownership).

If you approach Bounty Hunter 4/3: My Life in Combat from Marine Scout Sniper to MARSOC by Jason Delgado and Chris Martin with any of those books or others like them in mind, you may come away sadly disappointed. Bounty Hunter 4/3, is a different story and a much deeper and more personal story than most of the books in this genre.

Delgado with the help of experienced wartime scribe Martin, delves deeply into his personal story as he transitions and transforms for the kid growing up on the crime/drug ridden streets of the Bronx, joins the Marines and sees an evolution not only in himself, but in the military he serves. This is a very personal story that carries the expected conflict of action and violence with it, but does not lose the focus on the man. Each step along the way this is truly a story of life in the balance.

Delgado’s story is an every man’s tale, if that man wrestles with not only his circumstance, but then moves on to guide and lead others based on the battle hardened knowledge he has accumulated and to shape the next gen Marine snipers. This is truly a riveting, well constructed story that stands apart from others in its class; sort of like the man the story is based on.