Bob Lee Swagger #5
Simon & Schuster
October 2008
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Featuring: Bob Lee Swagger
400 pages ISBN: 1416565116 EAN: 9781416565116 Hardcover Add to Wish List
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AUTHOR STEPHEN HUNTER RETURNS WITH HIS MOST RIVETING BOB LEE
SWAGGER VOLUME TO DATE.
Talk about a
ride!
Woe unto he who crosses Bob Lee Swagger,
especially when his daughter's life is at stake. Forced off
the road and into a crash that leaves her in a coma,
clinging to life, reporter Nikki Swagger had begun to peel
back the onion of a Southernfried conspiracy bubbling with
all the angst, resentment, and dysfunction that Dixie
gangsters can muster. An ancient, violent crime clan, a
possibly corrupt law enforcement structure, gunmen of all
stripes and shapes, and deranged evangelicals rear their
ugly heads and will live to rue the day they targeted the
wrong man's daughter. It's what you call your big-time bad
career move. All of it is set against the backdrop of
excitement and insanity that only a weeklong NASCAR event
can bring to the backwoods of a town as seemingly sleepy as
Bristol, Tennessee.
A master at the top of his game,
Hunter provides a host of thrilling new reasons to read as
fast as we can. When Swagger picks up peeling where his
daughter left off, and his swift sword of justice is let
loose, we find a true American hero in his most stunning
action to date. And -- in the form of Brother Richard, a
self-decreed "Sinnerman" out of the old fire-and-brimstone
tradition -- Hunter offers up his most diabolical, engaging
villain yet. A triumph of story, character, and style,
Night of Thunder is Stephen Hunter at his very best.
Sounds like a great book. We moved here - here being 35 miles from Bristol, TN -in 1992. NASCAR has gotten bigger since then. Just from the brief description of the book, it sounds like you have pretty much gotten a good feel for the area. I work at a small county library here. We have several of your books in our collection. We have quite a few patrons who like suspense.I'm hoping they will appreciate this one. I'll ask the director to order it this week if she has not already. I'm looking forward to reading it. (Patricia Barraclough 9:49pm May 30, 2009)
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