Military Thriller: If Suitcase Nuke Exploded At U.S. Border

Author: ‘We were concerned that there were terrorists being let out of Gitmo’

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GREG COROMBOS

Truth is just as strange as fiction, as the recent U.S. release of five key Taliban figures closely mirrors the plot line of Scott McEwen’s new novel, “Target America: A Sniper Elite Novel,” which suggests the consequences of such a move could be calamitous within our own borders.

McEwen is a prolific author, known best for co-writing the best-selling “American Sniper” alongside famed military sniper and U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle. “American Target” is the latest in McEwen’s Sniper Elite series. He also co-authored the nonfiction work “Eyes on Target,” which chronicles the Benghazi terrorist attack and the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and how he believes the Obama administration poorly served Navy SEALs in both events.

In addition to discussing his new book, McEwen offered details about the forthcoming feature film based on “American Sniper” and the pending lawsuit Kyle’s widow still faces for Kyle allegedly defaming Jesse Ventura in that book.

“American Target” centers on Navy SEAL Gil Shannon and his elite team as they race to stop a nuclear weapon smuggled into the U.S. through its southern border. McEwen said his idea for the novel originated from real-life events and policies.

“We were concerned that there were terrorists being let out of Gitmo even back then, which has come to light pretty heavily in the last few days given the administration’s most recent releases. They’ve been doing this for some time. We were always concerned that this could end up blowing up in all of our faces,” McEwen said.

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“When you let these guys go, if you think that they’re rehabilitated, then you live in a dream world in Washington. They’re not rehabilitated, and I expect that the ones we just let out are going to come back and show us that once again. ‘Target America’ is about preparing our country for that eventuality.”

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