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Today's Guest: Scott McEwen, co-author, American Sniper (with Chris Kyle); novelist, Ghost Sniper (with Thomas Koloniar), lawyer
 

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Scott McEwen by clicking on the video player above! 

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of unsuspecting target practice dummies – wait, was that supposed to be a secret? Oh, well… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

There is a rogue, American-trained sniper tearing up the Mexican countryside – and, more importantly, the country’s political landscape – in Scott McEwen and Thomas Koloniar’s latest Sniper Elite novel, Ghost Sniper.

On the surface – hell, the cover illustration is a close-up of an enhanced sniper rifle – you might expect this will be a story that glorifies horrific gun violence. And while the violence is brutal, it isn’t celebrated at all. The fast-moving story is one of good vs. evil and many shades of dirty grey, all of them leading back to the CIA.
SCOTT McEWEN podcast excerpt: "One of my most vivid memories of Chris Kyle is just how humble a guy he really was. And how much he loved to joke around and shoot the breeze with people. He was just a normal guy; a very intense warrior, but one of the funnest guys I ever drank with in my life."

You can LISTEN to this interview with novelist SCOTT McEWEN, author of GHOST SNIPER and co-author of AMERICAN SNIPER, by clicking the audio player above!

If you like tales of international espionage and psychological warfare, it’s hard to beat the power of Ghost Sniper.

As for Scott McEwen, who is joining me today, he is a San Diego trial attorney who made his name in books as the late Chris Kyle’s co-author on the #1 New York Times bestseller American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History. (You may have seen the film version of American Sniper, starring Bradley Cooper as Kyle, and directed b

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