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Cold Days of the Snipers: U.S. Snipers Captured on 24th October 2002

by Frank Senauth

172 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-0692; ISBN 1-4120-2863-9; US$19.95, C$24.95, EUR16.95, £11.95

A fictional retelling of the dark days of late 2002, whan a pair of snipers terrorized parts of the Eastern United States.

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About the Book Frank Senauth has done it again. On the evening of the 19th of October, Senauth turned on CNN, and at that moment was able to view the newscast of the 12th shooting at a Ponderosa Steakhouse in Ashland, Virginia. A 37-year-old man was shot and wounded while leaving the restaurant and was taken to hospital for immediate surgery. Senauth knew he had a great story swelling in his brain. He knew he had to get more information before writing this story. The next day he got all the information about the other 11 shootings. Senauth started to put together a profile of the sniper. He would call him John Smith. When the snipers were caught by the SWAT team at 3:15 a.m. on the 24th of October 2002, Senauth started using the real names of the snipers, making the story more dramatic and to the point. The real names were John Allen Muhammad and his companion, Lee Boyd Malvo. Cold Days of the Snipers is a must-read for readers who wanted very much to know about the two U.S. snipers that terrorized a wide area of the United States.

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About the Author Frank Senauth was born in Guyana, South America. He worked and studied in London, England, then in 1973 he emigrated to Canada. He felt that Canada held better prospects for him. In 1986 he retired from his business and returned to his boyhood dream of his last wish of becoming a writer. He didn't know it would take him 10 long years of study in the different aspects of writing. His first novel, A Wish to Die - A Will to Live was published by Minerva, and republished by Trafford, and his last novel, published by Trafford was The Command (Segments of the War in Iraq 2003). Senauth lives with his family in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Also by Frank Senauth: To Save the Titanic from Disaster II A Cry for Help - The Fantastic Adventures of Elian Gonzales A Wish to Die - A Will to Live A Day of Terror: The Sagas of 11th September 2001 The Command (Segments of the War in Iraq 2003)

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Excerpt

It was Saturday evening 19th October 2002, when I turned on the television and started viewing the CNN News program. The program was about the U.S. sniper who had struck again. I was intrigued, and my curiosity was certainly aroused. I had seen the certain news cast before about this sniper and where the sniper had killed several people - but I was not really interested in writing a story at that moment of time. The idea did not come to me until that Saturday evening. I was amazed at what I was looking at - the sniper had just struck for the 12th time and 9 persons had been killed. The sniper had just shot a man from Florida, of 37 years of age. He was shot behind the Ponderosa Restaurant in Ashland, Virginia. His name could not be given because he was still alive, and he was taken to a hospital for surgery.
    I was so amazed at the CNN News cast that I looked at it for several hours. I felt a deep sympathy for all those people who had died in the worse possible way, they died in vane. I knew that I really wanted to write this story in my own dramatic way - but I knew if I were going to write this story, I would have to dig up a lot more information of what really happened before, and study all the instances before I would be able to put pen to paper. The very next day was Sunday, and I started to do some work from my computer. Most of all, I wanted to get all the names of the people who were killed and those who survived, and I would also have to make up a profile of the sniper. I didn't know his name and I didn't know him - but he was out there shooting all those people. I was most amazed that he had killed four persons on the 3rd of October 2002, and that was too many persons who had to die in one day. I felt he was blood thirsty to have killed four persons in one day. What was he thinking to have done that?
    I felt I wanted to get to know this sniper and find out why he was killing all those persons. I knew that was easily said than done. I knew I would have to use my imagination to get closer to him. He was smart and escaped all through the police dragnets and he was determined to carry out his special scheme of death.
    Since I did not know who the sniper or snipers were, I'd have to make a profile of the sniper. I felt he grew up on a farm. He also learnt to shoot on a farm - may be killing wild animals. May be at an older age something happened in his life that changed the whole outcome of his thinking, and the unusual way he felt about people in general. He was turned down for some job or he was fired from some job. He felt that the people owed him something, and for that he was mad at them. Really mad at them! He was ready to kill to show his passion of hate.
    He felt the time had now come for him to take action, real action, and for the people to pay. There would be no turning back when he started to kill. If he were going to do it, he would have to break the back of the tortoise.. He started the escapade in September in a small way, robbing and shooting some persons involve. At that time it was seen that two persons were involved. They did their bad deeds quickly and escaped. In October the real shootings started. We knew the people who got shot before October were just practice shots. People were shot one after the other and no one saw who were doing the shooting. All they saw was a white van, so the authorities were looking for a white van and may be some white person inside the van.
    But on several occasions the two black men were held up by police on the roads where the shooting had happened. But after careful inspection they were let go. No one thought two black men in an old broken down car were the shooters. They made several escapes and they were considered lucky. They felt if this happened to them again, they would certainly be in the clear.
    People all around the areas were afraid to go onto he streets, afraid to go for gas for their vehicles, afraid to go shopping, afraid to send their children to school, afraid of dying from a stray bullet from the sniper's gun, who was always one step in front of them.
    I felt at that time since I did not know the sniper's name, I would take the liberty of giving him a fictitious name. The name I chose was John Smith. Later I would get to know the real names of the two snipers, and at my first guess, I was partly right at the first name. Later in my story I knew that I would be able to use the right names of the notorious snipers that terrorized the Cities of Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. I guess you, too, would have made the same assumptions about the snipers.
    Around the 25th of October 2002, I got to know the names of the two men who were terrorizing several cities. They were finally caught at 3:19 a.m. on the 24th of October 2002, and their names were known to the public. I would call the older man, John Allen Muhammad and the younger man, Lee Boyd Malvo, and in that way we would know who was who as this story proceeded, in days of terror. I now knew the names of the victims, and I would tell the story accordingly how it really happened, in a time of time.
    I realize at this time this story would be very sensitive and some persons as usual would not want to read the story when the book is printed and some would want to read it. Well, for me I would do a good job in making this story readable, dramatic, a story of life and death. I hope many of you out there will take the opportunity to read my work that you will soon find out that I have put my heart and soul in it.
    Bless you all! I hope you will find time to read 'Cold Days of the Snipers.'
    I must congratulate former chief of police of Montgomery County, Virginia, Charles A. Moose who was head of the task force investigation, when the snipers' started shooting in his area. The chief was really mad at the snipers as they were playing around in his area, and he really wanted them caught and strung up on a tree and hung by the neck. They were bad news to him and all the residents around the Maryland and Virvinia area. Residents were afraid to go out, to do the things they were accustomed to do. They hoped and prayed the police task force would catch the killer or killers who was shooting up their towns.
    The chief of police in Maryland, Chief Moose made a promise to the people that he would catch the killer or killers and that he meant, and after careful tracking down the killers, he was able to prove his point. An arrest was made at 3:19 a.m. on Thursday, October 24. The police arrested John Allen Muhammed, forty-one- years of age and his companion, Lee Boyd Malvo, a seventeen year-old Jamaican boy, while they were sleeping in their car at a rest stop in Frederick County, Maryland.
    In November 2003, I heard that Charles Moose had written a book about the famous snipers that had killed thirteen person and wounding three persons in the United States. In November I was really interested to see what he had written about the great snipers, and I bought a copy of his book, THREE WEEKS IN OCTOBER. I really wanted to see how my book would compare with his and what he had to say about the snipers. I read about up to the ninth shootings, and all he mentioned was about himself, his family, and the calls that came in about the sniper's shootings. I felt at this time Mr. Moose really wanted to tell the world about himself, and occasionally mentioned about the shootings as they came in, and up to the day when the snipers were caught with their pants down.
    Mr. Moose was given $170,000. an advance for this great book of his, 'THREE WEEKS IN OCTOBER'.
    In my book,'COLD DAYS OF THE SNIPERS,' you will have no doubt that the two snipers are real and every move they make, I will be in a position to record their very moves. You will see everything for yourselves, you will see the way the snipers think, you will see the way they shoot, and how all of this adds up into a very exciting book of your choice. So you will have no choice but to buy this very exciting book. This will be a book, a must read.

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