Commando #5045: The Sniper

Commando #5045

by Colin Watson, David Alexander (Cover Art), Jaume Forns (Artist)

Sergeant David Woking perched in his sniper's nest. He peered through his sights as an S.S. officer's Totenkopft glinted in the dappled sunlight. His finger tensed and the Nazi tasted lead. Despite David's immense skill as a marksman, his arrogant C.O. Major George Smith and his crony, Lieutenant Digby Clark, had a low opinion of David and snipers in general. But in the face of some mysterious deaths, they would soon come to fear... THE SNIPER!

66 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 10, 2017

About the author

Colin Watson was educated at the Whitgift School in South Croydon, London. During his career as a journalist he worked in London and Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he was a leader-writer for Kemsley Newspapers.

His book Hopjoy Was Here (1962) received the Silver Dagger Award. He was married, with three children, and lived in Lincolnshire. After retiring from journalism he designed silver jewellery.

As well as a series of humorous detective novels set in the imaginary town of Flaxborough, featuring Inspector Purbright, Watson also wrote and later revised a study of detective stories and thrillers called Snobbery with Violence.