Carnivore (39 page)

Authors: Dillard Johnson

To Richard Venola, former editor of
Guns & Ammo
and perhaps the Most Interesting Man in the World, for reading through the rough draft of
Carnivore
and providing numerous helpful insights and comments, all of which made this a better book.

To Peter Hubbard, my editor at HarperCollins, for reading that first unsolicited query and giving CJ's story an audience.

And to Andrea, for believing.

James Tarr

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Sergeant First Class DILLARD “C. J.” JOHNSON
, U.S. Army (Ret.), earned a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, four Purple Hearts, a Presidential Unit Citation, a Meritorious Service Medal, a Joint Service Commendation Medal, six Army Commendation Medals, seven Army Achievement Medals, and numerous other awards during his twenty years of service. SFC Johnson's uniform and sniper logbook are on display at the Fort Stewart Museum in Georgia. He is featured in
On Point: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom
, the Pentagon's exhaustively reported study of the 2003 invasion. SFC Johnson has appeared on Fox News,
Good Morning America
, and the cover of
Soldier of Fortune
magazine. Born and raised in rural Kentucky, he lives in Florida with his wife and family.

JAMES TARR
is a contributing editor for both
Handguns
and
Rifle Shooter
magazines. He regularly appears on
Guns & Ammo TV
and the Sportsman Channel's
Personal Defense TV
. A former police officer and nationally ranked competitive shooter, Tarr worked as a private investigator for seventeen years.

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE

This book was submitted to the Department of Defense Office of Security Review, which cleared it for publication as originally written.

CREDITS

COVER DESIGN BY RICHARD L. AQUAN

COVER PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR

Map of Iraq courtesy of the UN Cartographic Section.

All photographs are courtesy of the author.

COPYRIGHT

C
ARNIVORE
. Copyright Â© 2013 by Dillard Johnson and James Tarr. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST EDITION

ISBN 978-0-06-228841-7

EPUB Edition July 2013 ISBN 9780062288400

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