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Published Dec 2009
400 pages
Genre: Thrillers
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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.
"Starred Review. Hunter is back at the top of his game. He’s the best on the subject of guns and what damage bullets can do to human flesh." - Publishers Weekly
"Starred Review. [I, Sniper] will leave even unsympathetic readers gasping." Booklist
"Hunter's thrillers are always taut, exciting, and well written, and his latest is no exception." - Library Journal
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Stephen Hunter was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1946, and grew up in the Chicago area. He graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1968 and then spent two years in the United States Army as a ceremonial soldier in the 3rd Infantry in Washington, D.C.
Stephen Hunter retired as a chief film critic for The Washington Post, where he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism. He has written several novels, published two collections of film criticism and a nonfiction work, American Gunfight.
Some of his recent works include Dead Zero (2010), The Third Bullet (2013) and Sniper's Honor (2014).
He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
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