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| Original Title: | Point of Impact |
| ISBN: | 0099453452 (ISBN13: 9780099453451) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Bob Lee Swagger #1 |
| Characters: | Bob Lee Swagger, Nick Memphis |
| Literary Awards: | このミステリーがすごい！ for Best Translated Mystery Novel of the Year in Japan (2000) |
Stephen Hunter
Paperback | Pages: 528 pages Rating: 4.27 | 14726 Users | 710 Reviews
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| Title | : | Point of Impact (Bob Lee Swagger #1) |
| Author | : | Stephen Hunter |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 528 pages |
| Published | : | March 6th 2003 by Arrow (first published February 1st 1993) |
| Categories | : | Thriller. Fiction. Mystery. Action. Suspense. Mystery Thriller. Crime |
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He was one the best Marine snipers in Vietnam. Today, twenty years later, disgruntled hero of an unheroic war, all Bob Lee Swagger wants to be left alone and to leave the killing behind. But with consummate psychological skill, a shadowy military organization seduces Bob into leaving his beloved Arkansas hills for one last mission for his country, unaware until too late that the game is rigged. The assassination plot is executed to perfection—until Bob Lee Swagger, alleged lone gunman, comes out of the operation alive, the target of a nationwide manhunt, his only allies a woman he just met and a discredited FBI agent. Now Bob Lee Swagger is on the run, using his lethal skills once more—but this time to track down the men who set him up and to break a dark conspiracy aimed at the very heart of America.Rating About Books Point of Impact (Bob Lee Swagger #1)
Ratings: 4.27 From 14726 Users | 710 ReviewsNotice About Books Point of Impact (Bob Lee Swagger #1)
I had read the novel Hot Springs by Stephen Hunter several years ago and had been pleasantly suprised by the quality of the work. And then, about a year later I saw the movie, "Shooter" starring Mark Wahlberg and once again, came away pleasantly surprised. I realized that the movie was based on the novel, "Point of Impact" also by Stephen Hunter but beyond that I discovered the two were related in a unique way. The main character in "Hot Springs" was Earl Swagger (with at least three books inA series of books that I would like to recommend is Stephen Hunters first three books of the Bob Lee Swagger series (Point of Impact, Black Light and Time to Hunt). I have only read one of the later books in the series and they seem to be more straight-forward action-thrillers but the first three books had the most wonderful plots and some of the best twists I have ever read. Hunter took what could have been a very one-dimensional character in Marine sniper Swagger and made him intensely
I really enjoyed reading this engrossing thriller.It's the first book in a ten-book series.
Is Bob Lee Swagger really Superman?Man this book gave me a headache. Stephen Hunter can write great gun battles, and he knows weapons and tactics. But his hero, Bob Lee Swagger, is a boring, monotonous individual. He's not a carefree playboy like James Bond. He's not a family man like Jack Ryan. He's not even a cheerfully amoral mercenary like Conan The Barbarian. No, Bob Lee Swagger is what Tennessee Williams once called "an ass-aching Puritan." He doesn't smoke, drink, raise hell or chase
This is an excellent thriller where an ex-sniper who lives a solitary life in the mountains of Arkansas is lured into a complex plot to kill a political figure where he ultimately is targeted to be the patsy. . I loved the development of the Bob Lee Swagger character. Supporting characters are well developed and the settings are described to perfection, particularly when the action moves to the mountains of western Arkansas. I've been in that area many times and --pardon the pun-- the author is
This is the second novel by Stephen Hunter that I've read, and while it doesn't quite hit the cartoonishly hypertrophic heights of Dirty White Boys , it's more tightly focused and plotted. This is both good and bad, since after the first 100 or 200 pages it feels as if the characters are all slaves to the plot, which is unfortunate, since they actually had the potential to be pretty interesting people. On the plus side, the technical details of marksmanship and rifles are all pretty
Is Bob Lee Swagger really Superman?Man this book gave me a headache. Stephen Hunter can write great gun battles, and he knows weapons and tactics. But his hero, Bob Lee Swagger, is a boring, monotonous individual. He's not a carefree playboy like James Bond. He's not a family man like Jack Ryan. He's not even a cheerfully amoral mercenary like Conan The Barbarian. No, Bob Lee Swagger is what Tennessee Williams once called "an ass-aching Puritan." He doesn't smoke, drink, raise hell or chase
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