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I, Sniper: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel (Bob Lee Swagger Novels) |  | Author: Stephen Hunter
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
List Price: $26.00
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Rating:  142 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 418
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.6 x 1.3
ISBN: 1416565159
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781416565154
Publication Date: December 29, 2009
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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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 I, Sniper July 12, 2010
Mollie Bair (Arkansas)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
My husband was pleased with this book. He normally does not read but he finished this book in one day.
Bob Nails it! July 2, 2010
J. Aragon
Bob Swagger investigates what looks like a tight case in order to offer a fresh set of eyes. Well, you know what must happen. He unearths the truth, people die, he gets to shoot people, and in the process redeems his pal, Nick Memphis.
In all serious, this is another great Swagger book. I definitely got my fill of hardcore masculinity from this book. I keep on coming back for these books due to the good storytelling and the gritty Bob.
Action Packed Conspiracy Novel June 21, 2010
G. Smitheman (sevierville, tn, US)
Bobby Lee Swagger is off the chain in this amazing government conspiracy epic. A must have for suspense lovers and gun aficionados alike. If you saw the movie Shooter with Mark Warlburg than you'll love this book, and if you haven't, read the book first then go rent it.
Just one irritating thing June 15, 2010
Michael Duffy (Rockville, MD United States)
Like the book a lot but, please, I know Hunter lives in Maryland, but he did work at the Washington Post so I assume he got into DC once in a while, so why did he keep putting the Hoover Building, the rehabilitated 7th Street night district, Verizon Center, etc. in Southeast! It's in Northwest, for God's sake. Don't they have copy editors anymore or even people who can read a map? Suspension of belief is obviously a prerequisite for enjoying such books, but if you can't get the easy and obvious stuff right, how much faith can we have when all the technical stuff comes flying hot and heavy. Reminds me of the big Robert Littell book about the CIA which was chuck full of such groaners (agents disquised as D.C. utility workers planting a bug in a house wearing Con Ed outfits (sorry PEPCO); people catching DC's subway years before it opened; 10 digit phone numbers 20 years early....). I mean , how hard is it to check that stuff?
 What is going on here ? June 7, 2010
William E. Van Gieson (Hackettstown,NJ)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
This represents a serious downgrade in both the author's work and the leading character.
What possessed the author to suddenly turn a previously interesting and multifaceted character into a knuckle dragging moron who 'don't know nouns from verbs' and 'gets all my news from fox'. The worst of it is that these
traits are only present when the author needs them to be.
Bob Lee's speech patterns change to suit the situation, and not because of any duplicity in his characterization.
Early on he speaks like a backwoods moron, but when the situation calls for it he is suddenly a perfectly articulate person.
I was certainly a fan of this series, although the '47th Samurai' represented an ominous drop in quality and the next book was not a lot better. Where is the author of 'Dirty White Boys', 'Black Light', and other really well
written books in this and the 'Earl Swagger' series ?
So much of a disappointment that I will think twice about any more of the series. Maybe it's time for Hunter to give it up.
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