: Re: Where to find some good examples of combat or action scenes? I always learn a lot about about writing by reading other works and following their examples. Right now I'm very bad at writing

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For modern combat, I highly recommend anything by Stephen Hunter (his book Point of Impact was developed into the Mark Wahlberg movie "Shooter"). Hunter writes knowledgably about guns and combat, and primarily but not exclusively about sniping. One of his less-well-known books with some great set-piece action is The Day Before Midnight. He also wrote a nonfiction book called American Gunfight, about the assassination attempt on President Truman that cost the life of a uniformed Secret Service agent. One of the "gimmicks" of the book, though I liked it, is that in the middle of the narrative about who did what when, Hunter breaks into a stream-of-consciousness description of the gunfight from the points of view of the various participants, trying to emphasize the chaos and the fastfastfast nature of events, as opposed to the nice clean narrative we're used to in fictional gunfights.

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