Karthik M
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Stephen Hunter:
What made you create a sniper character, and what did you make a macho character look so vulnerable at the same time? Any inspirations behind this?
Stephen Hunter
The sniper was the "Faustian intellectual" of war, who knew more than anyone but whose activities earned him nothing but exile. I found that very provocative. I used the great USMC hero Carlos Hathcock as a model; CH had lost his spotter in Vietnam, and so it wasn't a sniper I was creating, it was a sniper riven with grief. I found that very interesting, far more so than an invulnerable Rambo type of goon.
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