Stephen Hunter's Bob Lee Swagger faces off against one of his most ruthless adversaries yet to clear the name of a fellow soldier-in-arms.
Bob Lee Swagger #6
Simon & Schuster
January 2010
On Sale: December 29, 2009
Featuring: Bob Lee Swatter
432 pages ISBN: 1416565159 EAN: 9781416565154 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Four famed '60s radicals are gunned down at long range by a
sniper. Under enormous media scrutiny, the FBI quickly
concludes that Marine war hero Carl Hitchcock, whose
ninety-three kills were considered the leading body count
tally among American marksman in Vietnam, was the shooter.
But as the Bureau, led by Special Agent Nick Memphis, bears
down, Hitchcock commits suicide. In closing out the
investigation, Nick discovers a case made in heaven:
everything fits, from timeline, ballistics, and forensics to
motive, means, and opportunity. Maybe it's a little too
perfect.
Nick asks his friend, the retired Marine
sniper Bob Lee Swagger, to examine the data. Using a skill
set no other man on earth possesses, Swagger soon discovers
unseen anomalies and gradually begins to unravel a
sophisticated conspiracy — one that would require the
highest level of warcraft by the most superb special
operations professionals. As Swagger penetrates the deepest
secrets of the sniper world and its new technology, Nick
stands firm in the face of hardball PR initiatives and an
inflamed media calling for his ouster.
Swagger soon
closes in, and those responsible will stop at nothing to
take him out. But these heavily armed men make the mistake
of thinking they are hunting Bob, when he is, in fact,
hunting them.
I, Sniper will satisfy Stephen
Hunter's legions of fans and win him droves of new ones with
its signature blend of brilliant plotting, vivid characters,
razor-sharp dialogue, and extraordinary gunfights. And when
Swagger and the last of his antagonists finally face each
other, reenacting a classic ritual of arms, it is clear that
at times there's nothing more necessary than a good man with
a gun and the guts to use it.
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