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Nov 01, 1993 | ISBN 9780553563511 Buy
Feb 27, 2007 | ISBN 9780553904048 Buy
Jan 30, 2007 | 184 Minutes Buy
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Nov 01, 1993 | ISBN 9780553563511
Feb 27, 2007 | ISBN 9780553904048
Jan 30, 2007 | ISBN 9780739354476
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“A harsh, visceral, novel of conspiracy and betrayal . . . a distrubing mix that plays on our sense of history while at the same time it appeals to our darkest fantasies of rough justice.”—Chicago Tribune The inspiration for the USA Network series Shooter 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.
Stephen Hunter is the author of 20 novels and the retired chief film critic for the Washington Post, where he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism. His novels include The Third Bullet; Sniper’s Honor; I, Sniper; I, Ripper; and Point of Impact, which was adapted for… More about Stephen Hunter
"Hunter passes almost everybody else in the thriller-writing trade as if they were standing still…worth every extravagant rave." —New York Daily News
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