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    I, Sniper: A Bob Lee Swagger sniper thriller!

    By Stephen Hunter

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    Bob Lee Swagger, former Marine Corps sniper, is back. And this time Swagger's facing an adversary whose trigger finger may be even faster than his own. 

    When four famous 1960s radicals are gunned down, including the wife of an international media mogul, it would appear to be an open-and-shut case. A wealth of evidence ties the chief suspect, retired Marine sniper Carl Hitchcock, to the murders. Holder, until recently, of the record number of kills in Vietnam and anxious to reclaim his title, Hitchcock's subsequent suicide would seem to confirm his guilt. But FBI assistant director Nick Memphis has his doubts – and calls on former Marine Corps sniper Bob Lee Swagger to investigate.

    As Swagger digs deeper, it becomes clear that matters are more complicated than would initially appear. The shots were not executed with the scope of a 1972 rifle, Hitchcock's weapon of choice, but by a high-tech scope used by active Marines.

    But as Swagger starts to unravel the tangled web of connections surrounding the murders, he finds his own days may be numbered. Because he's about to face one of his most ruthless adversaries yet – a sniper whose keen intellect and pinpoint accuracy rivals his own. The end result will be a bloody confrontation that only one of them can survive.

    What people are saying about I, Sniper: 

    ‘Stephen Hunter's I, Sniper brings back one of the great characters in modern thrillerdom, Bob Lee Swagger, everyone's favourite lethal, dour Southerner. I kind of want Swagger to meet up with Lee Child's Jack Reacher one day, in a contest to see who could say the least while doing the most damage.’ Malcolm Gladwell
     
    ‘The tension never lets up’ New York Times

    ‘Stephen Hunter is an Elmore Leonard on steroids’ John Sandford

    ‘As all Bob Lee fans know, it comes down to 'straight killing time.' And so it does, in a ramped-up, high-tech High Noon finale. As always, Hunter makes it work with precise, detail-rich prose that strips the faux glamour from gun fighting and leaves only the skills of the combatants set against the horrors they wreak.’ Booklist

    ‘Hunter is back at the top of his game.’ Publisher’s Weekly

    ‘In his guns-a-poppin' latest, Hunter pits his series hero against a nest of sharp-shooting vipers. Dust off the OK Corral. Even the somewhat squeamish, and even certifiable gun-dummies, may once again find chivalric, heroic Bob Lee just about irresistible.’ Kirkus Reviews  

    ‘Hunter's thrillers are always taut, exciting, and well written, and his latest is no exception. There's also a lot of gun and tech talk as Swagger uses decades' worth of skills to stay a step or three ahead of the baddies. Swagger fans will not be disappointed.’ Library Journal

    'Hunter has a unique writing style that thrills and captivates from the opening scene to deliver an exciting whodunit' The Sun

    ‘Stories of passion, guilt and redemption that jump right off the page and smack the reader clean between the eyes’ Independent on Sunday

    ‘American hardboiled at its very best, full of taciturn and stoical characters and plotting in explosive overdrive’ The Times

    ‘Hunter choreographs the violence in steely prose and Swagger ... remains one of crime fiction’s most engaging heroes’ Irish Independent

     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster UK
    Release dateDec 15, 2009
    ISBN9781847378330
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    I, Sniper: A Bob Lee Swagger sniper thriller!
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    Stephen Hunter

    Stephen Hunter has written over twenty novels. The retired chief film critic for The Washington Post, where he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, he has also published two collections of film criticism and a nonfiction work, American Gunfight. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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    • 4/5
      Four people with ties to the '60s radical movement are assassinated by a long range sniper. Carefully crafted evidence points to former Marine war hero Carl Hitchcock. He is eventually accused of the crime by the FBI but commits suicide before capture.Special Agent Nick Mempphis feels that the evidence is a bit too perfect and asks his old friend, Bob Lee Swagger, to look into it.Swagger, a retired Marine sniper, finds discrepancies and goes to a meeting with Nick and other officials and demonstrates why he feels the Hitchcock was set- up. Swagger suggests that to find the real killer and unravel the set-up another sniper should be used and he volunteers.Swagger is on the trail to clear Hitchcock but as he searches and the FBI doesn't close the case, political pressure mounts and suddenly Nick Memphis is in the hot seat.Stephen Hunter has given the reader an action packed story. He provides abundant detail about weapons and this helps the reader feel the plot is realistic.Swagger is a fun character and reading about another of his adventures is like finding an old John Wayne movie and seeing it for the first time.Very enjoyable.
    • 3/5
      book was interesting , it was a retelling of the jack the ripper tale ending with his theory on who was the ripper
    • 1/5
      I had ALWAYS looked forward to Mr. Hunter's novels. However this will be the last one that I purchase. I was completely fascinated with his absorbing stories and not in the blatant diatribes concerning his personal politics, that filled this book.
    • 3/5
      I, Sniper is intended as entertainment -- a thriller for those whose taste runs to gunfights and shadowy conspiracies -- and on that basic level, it succeeds. It drew me into the story, it entertained me, and I never felt the urge to put it aside and pick up something else instead.But it's sloppy . . . Lord, is it sloppy. The pacing is frequently uneven, the book as a whole is overlong, and the half-dozen characters based on real people are such transparent stand-ins (and yet so cartoonish) that they destroy any sense of the story happening in the real world. Bob Lee Swagger has been promoted from man to demigod, and every four or five chapters Hunter has one of the other characters deliver a speech about his awesomeness. A long subplot about a New York Times reporter seems to exist solely to demonstrate the media's cluelessness and bias, yet it winds up making the Times seem more sinned against than sinning.Your mileage may vary, of course, and if your worldview is closer to Hunter's than mine is, it may vary a lot, but I was left with a feeling that -- to quote someone wittier than I -- the author's "sold his birthright for a pot of message."
    • 5/5
      Satisfying, esp. after the last two. This is now my 2nd favourite in the Bob Lee saga after #1 "Point of Impact"Stephen Hunter returns to ex-USMC sniper Bob Lee Swagger again in "I, Sniper", but this time in a way that is completely satisfying to this long time fan.Although I've been a faithful Stephen Hunter reader of every single book since "Point of Impact" I have to admit to feeling some disappointment in the last 2 books of the Bob Lee series which both veered off into what at times seemed like ridiculous scenarios for the old sniper Swagger to be found in (esp. since he is now in his early '60s, but kudos to Hunter as well for letting his character age in real time), such as samurai swords in Japan in "The 47th Samurai" and NASCAR races in "Nights of Thunder". I'm happy for Stephen Hunter to set himself challenges of writing about new situations for his characters and I'll support him forever, but that doesn't mean I'll be completely satisfied with each of those books.But in "I, Sniper", Hunter returns his main protagonist to a situation he knows best of all, men (and women) with honour, who work to defend their own and those near and dear to them and (of course) the rifles & scopes that are built for long-distance shooting.I'm not going to spoil a single thing about this book except to say that it does have minor spoilers of all of the previous Bob Lee Swagger books, so if you have yet to discover this series, you had best start with #1 "Point of Impact" then read "Dirty White Boys" as a side-bar because you need it for background to #2 "Black Light", and then #3 "Time to Hunt", use your own preferences/judgement about #4 & #5 (see above), but definitely do not miss this new one #6 "I, Sniper". Long time fans should be completely satisfied with this return to form. Stephen Hunter is still the poet of the long-range gun and the master painter in words of the shoot-out or other violent confrontation.
    • 4/5
      Better than the previous two, fun story, still has some significant holes. And the whole Bob Lee can predict the future well enough to survive crazy odds just from reading people and the terrain is getting a little old. He should be dead several dozen times over by now.