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    Black Light: Bob Lee Swagger, Book 2
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    Black Light: Bob Lee Swagger, Book 2

    Written by Stephen Hunter

    Narrated by Beau Bridges

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    Only one thing stands between a son and his father's killer: forty years of lies..

    On a remote Arizona ranch, a man who has known loss, fear, and war weeps for the first time since he was a child.  His tears are for the father taken from him four decades before in a deadly shoot-out.  And his grief will lead him back to the place where he was born, where his father died, and where a brutal conspiracy is about to explode.

    For Bob Lee Swagger, the world changed on that hot day in Blue Eye, Arkansas, when two local boys rode armed and wild in a '55 Fairlane convertible. Swagger's father, Earl, a state trooper, was investigating the brutal murder of a young woman that day.  By midnight Earl Swagger lay dead in a deserted cornfield.

    Now Bob Lee wants answers.  He wants to know the truth behind the shoot -out that took his father's life, a mystery buried in forty years of lies.  Because for Bob Lee Swagger, the killing didn't end that day in Blue Eye, Arkansas. The killing had just begun...

    Weaving together characters from his national bestsellers Point of Impact and Dirty White Boys, Stephen Hunter's gripping thriller builds to an exhilarating climax--and an explosion of gunfire that blasts open the secrets of two generations.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 4, 2000
    ISBN9780553754735
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    Black Light: Bob Lee Swagger, Book 2
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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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    • 2/5
      A real good read
    • 4/5
      starting was slow.....but finishing was nail biting.....recommended read....
    • 4/5
      Read and loved "Point of Impact" so looked forward to another Bob Lee swagger book. At first I felt disappointed - the hokeyness and tone set me to wondering was this going to morph into a Grisham-like novel. But no fear there's only one Bob Lee and the story developed and was most readable and enjoyable. Not as good as PoI but well worth reading.
    • 5/5
      As usual well written and suspenseful to the end. Love the twists.
    • 5/5
      And this one is the best Stephen Hunter yet. This guy can flat tell a story. Some of the plot is not even interesting (I'm just not fascinated by the intricacies of various guns) but even so, his stories are just so compelling.
    • 4/5
      The book is surprisingly a deeper look at the relationships between fathers and sons than one might expect from a Stephen Hunter novel. It still is at its core an action/thriller but the other stuff is well handled and adds welcome depth to the genre.

      The actual plot is pretty good but is maybe a little too convoluted to really work, but is plenty good enough to be worth reading.
    • 4/5
      I would have given this book 5 stars for its plot, and action but there was way to much detail given to various fir arms and ammunation. The story keeps the suspense ratcheted up. Over all, Black Light is a good thriller.
    • 3/5
      Okay, sniper and military, more of a guy's book to me.
    • 4/5
      The night belongs to the shooter who can see through it, Bob Lee Swagger a USA Marine sniper in Vietnam and twenty years later he was forced to kill again. Forty years earlier, Swagger's father"Earl" a dedicated state trooper was gunned down by two robbers in a shoot-out just outside of Blue Eye, Arkansas. Faced with Russell Pewtie, Jr's desire to write a book about their dad's, went on too discover what really happened in that long-ago Arkansas night, between the murder of that colored girl Shirelle Parker and the shoot-out with Jimmy & Bub Pye against Trooper Swagger.
    • 3/5
      If the "nested" story of Bob Lee in the first 1/3 of the book was any slower I'd be able to nap between scenes. The only reason he's even in this book is so it can be part of a series, but it has nothing to do with him - it's his Daddy's story.Well, that's not quite true I suppose, there is some story around Bob, but there's just not enough going on to make it interesting enough to read. And the stereotype characterizations are not very interesting. I don't even care enough about anything/anyone in the story for it to matter who gets killed. When you're cheering for the drug-dealing abusive bad-guy because at least he's "doing something" in the story, it's time to stop reading the series I guess.
    • 2/5
      This wasn't very good. I just don't think Hunter has what I'm looking for, and this is the last one of his I'll read.. Some of it is his characters, the hero is a total bubba and the sidekick is a totally helpless easterner. The only person I liked was the crimelord who was a good redneck. But it's also his plots, I realize these are fiction, fluff and such but the conspiracies are just a little too thin for me to give credit too. Same for Master Sniper, the plot just left me thinking, "What?"