Nicholas Irving

Nicholas Irving (born November 28, 1986) is an American author and former soldier. He was a special operations sniper in the 3rd Ranger Battalion for the U.S. Army.

Early life Nicholas Irving was born on November 28, 1986, in Augsburg, Germany and raised in Maryland.

Irving was a poor student except for when a subject was adjacent to his military interests, namely junior high ROTC and math upon learning of its application in sniping.

Irving has claimed to have completed 33 kills over approximately 100 days, though United States Special Operations Command has stated they do not track this figure and cannot verify it.

He also served as an on-set advisor for Doug Liman's 2017 sniper film The Wall.

Author In 2015, he wrote and published with Gary Brozek The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers, a New York Times bestseller about his military career during the war on terror. On February 2, 2015, The Weinstein Company acquired the television rights to make a miniseries out of the autobiography. On March 5, 2015, NBC picked up the miniseries from Weinstein. In late 2017, Irving revealed in a podcast that the miniseries has been scrapped, but a movie based on the book was in preproduction.

Social media In 2023, he featured in Youtube channel Jubilee's video: Do All Killers Think The Same? | Spectrum. Irving also as of 2026, features in interview podcasts by channel, djvlad. Irving's Instagram handle is officialreaper33.

Personal life Irving married Jessica Irving in 2007, whom he had met in the 1st grade and reconnected with over the internet in 2005. Team Reaper: 3rd Ranger Battalion's Deadliest Sniper Team (2012) Precision Rifle B.I.B.L.E: (Ballistics In Battlefield Learned Environments) (2012) The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers (2015, with Gary Brozek) Never Fear Anything: My Untold Story As A Sniper In Our Nations Longest War (2018, with Robert Terkla)

Fiction Reaper: Ghost Target (2018, with A.J. Tata) Reaper: Threat Zero (2019, with A.J. Tata) Reaper: Drone Strike (2020, with A.J. Tata) Walker Drive (2021)