A review by ejfisch
Throwing Lead: A Writer's Guide to Firearms (and the People Who Use Them) by J. Daniel Sawyer, Mary Mason, Kitty NicIaian

4.0

As a writer of characters who often use firearms of some kind, I found this book to be very useful. I learned a lot about guns, both from a writing perspective and from a real-world application perspective. I'm only giving it 4 stars simply because I still don't know enough about guns to know for sure how accurate everything was. But the authors seem credible enough, and they do a good job writing in ways that the reader can understand. They're carrying on a conversation with you, not writing an encyclopedia article. There's also a certain measure of dry humor that I really enjoyed. I'd recommend this book to any author who writes characters who regularly handle firearms, especially if you're going for accuracy-but-not-too-much-detail.