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Cold Zero: A Vietnam War Sniper Novel
For fans of Matterhorn and The Things They Carried comes a haunting Vietnam War thriller about snipers, secrets, and the missions America buried.
In the shattered borderlands south of the DMZ, Marine sniper Corporal Daniel Pruett learns that distance changes everything.
At six hundred meters, a man becomes movement.
At eight hundred meters, morality becomes mathematics.
Assigned to a covert STA platoon operating near Con Thien, Pruett and his spotter, Mateo Ruiz, hunt targets deep inside contested territory where the rules of war no longer apply. Their missions arrive through irregular channels. Their targets come without confirmation. And every successful shot pulls them deeper into a hidden war fought beyond official maps and beyond accountability.
When a classified mission packet orders the assassination of a civilian operative with “protected status disputed,” Pruett begins to suspect that the real enemy may not be across the wire at all.
As the body count rises and the chain of command closes ranks, Pruett must decide whether survival means obedience — or whether some orders are meant to die in the dark.
Brutally authentic, atmospheric, and emotionally devastating, Cold Zero is a literary Vietnam War novel about precision, guilt, brotherhood, and the terrible silence between trigger pull and consequence.
Perfect for readers who
Vietnam War fictionmilitary sniper novelsMACV-SOG and recon storiesmorally complex war thrillerselite military teamsgritty historical military fiction
In the shattered borderlands south of the DMZ, Marine sniper Corporal Daniel Pruett learns that distance changes everything.
At six hundred meters, a man becomes movement.
At eight hundred meters, morality becomes mathematics.
Assigned to a covert STA platoon operating near Con Thien, Pruett and his spotter, Mateo Ruiz, hunt targets deep inside contested territory where the rules of war no longer apply. Their missions arrive through irregular channels. Their targets come without confirmation. And every successful shot pulls them deeper into a hidden war fought beyond official maps and beyond accountability.
When a classified mission packet orders the assassination of a civilian operative with “protected status disputed,” Pruett begins to suspect that the real enemy may not be across the wire at all.
As the body count rises and the chain of command closes ranks, Pruett must decide whether survival means obedience — or whether some orders are meant to die in the dark.
Brutally authentic, atmospheric, and emotionally devastating, Cold Zero is a literary Vietnam War novel about precision, guilt, brotherhood, and the terrible silence between trigger pull and consequence.
Perfect for readers who
Vietnam War fictionmilitary sniper novelsMACV-SOG and recon storiesmorally complex war thrillerselite military teamsgritty historical military fiction
319 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 21, 2026
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