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David Healey

David Healey is an American author of historical fiction, military thrillers and regional history. He has worked as a journalist, teacher and ghostwriter, including a twenty-one-year career as a reporter and editor. His debut novel, Sharpshooter, is an alternative-history Civil War thriller involving a plot to assassinate Union general Ulysses S. Grant. Healey has also written other Civil War novels and the historical study 1812: Rediscovering Chesapeake Bay’s Forgotten War.

He is best known for action-driven novels set during the Second World War, particularly the series beginning with Ghost Sniper and continuing through books such as Ardennes Sniper, Red Sniper and Pacific Sniper. His wartime fiction draws partly on interviews he conducted with veterans of the US 29th Infantry Division who landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day. Healey’s novels combine battlefield detail, covert missions and individual rivalries, often focusing on sharpshooters operating within major campaigns in Europe and the Pacific.

Periods and events

American Revolutionary War Korean War World War II Nazi Germany Pacific War American Civil War D-Day and Normandy Campaign German Occupation of France Soviet Era Battle of Gettysburg

Series

Series by David Healey (3 series)

Caje Cole in Order

by David Healey 11 books 4.4

The Caje Cole series follows an Appalachian hunter serving as an American sniper from the Normandy landings through the final campaigns in Europe and into the Korean War. The Second World War novels place Cole against German marksmen during D-Day, the Falaise fighting, the Ardennes offensive and Operation…

Ghost Sniper

4.2

Iron Sniper

4.4

Gods & Snipers

4.4

Ardennes Sniper

4.5

Red Sniper

4.4

Frozen Sniper

4.4

Sniper Ridge

4.5

Fallen Sniper

4.5

Sniper’s Justice

4.5

9.5

The Gift of the GI

4.4

Righteous Sniper

4.4

Pacific Sniper in Order

by David Healey 7 books 4.4

The Pacific Sniper series follows Deacon ‘Deke’ Cole and Patrol Easy through the American campaign against Imperial Japan. Beginning after Pearl Harbor, the sequence moves from island fighting to Leyte, the liberation of the Philippines, the Battle of Manila and the approach to Okinawa. Deke’s skill as an…

Pacific Sniper

4.3

Rising Sniper

4.4

Jungle Sniper

4.4

Hunter Sniper

4.4

Savage Sniper

4.4

Samurai & Snipers

4.5

Typhoon Sniper

Civil War in Order

by David Healey 3 books 4.4

The Civil War trilogy uses fictional Confederate plots to place individual agents against decisive moments of the American conflict. Rebel Fever concerns an attempt to unleash disease in Washington during the winter of 1862, while Rebel Train follows cavalrymen who seize Abraham Lincoln’s train as he travels to…