Equestrian, fisherman and aspiring F.B.I. agent who could take deadly aim with a ketchup dispenser.
At the story's heart is Brookmyre's familiar antihero, Jack Parlabane, a smart-mouthed, rules-flouting investigative reporter with a talent for picking locks and a deadly aim.
One of the three pictures from inside the Westgate shopping mall purportedly showed "the horrific moment al-Shabaab gunman took deadly aim".
Here, we have another gifted killer with a marriage, a deadly aim, and presumably a keen sense of fighting for Good.
With deadly aim, the sniper picked them off one by one, the spokesman said, hitting each in the head or upper chest, above his bullet-proof vest.
Edwards's narrative is one of ingenious disguises, pitched battles fought with deadly aim and hair-breadth escapes by men who knew that they fought under the "black flag".
There is a sly old coot with deadly aim (Robert Patrick); his Mexican-American sidekick (Michael Peña); a black detective (Anthony Mackie); and the requisite egghead (Giovanni Ribisi), who has an advanced knowledge of the era's high-tech gadgetry.
I know she would write a clear and killer essay about what happened when the camera and the gun got welded together and about how adding lenses to guns increased the deadly aim of drones and how police body cameras and bystanders' video recordings affect police brutality.
An astonishing strategy is found in cuttlefish, whose wide-set eyes normally permit a large degree of panoramic vision but can be rotated forward by a special muscular mechanism when the animal is about to attack, giving it the binocular vision it needs for shooting out its tentacles with deadly aim.
For over four hours, the deadly aim of Confederate cannons and troops blanketed the land with dead or wounded Union soldiers, but in the early afternoon the Yankee's superior numbers finally overran the Confederates positioned in what has been known ever since as the Bloody Lane.
