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38 reviews
Stephen Hunter

Bantam, 1989

Exciting fictional combat story
A force of highly trained rogue soldiers takes over a nuclear missile silo designed to be completely impregnable. They will launch "the bird" as soon as they can burn through a block of titanium covering the last key required....Probably around midnight that night. Delta Force is called in, two ex-tunnel rats from Vietnam are coerced into finding a "back-door", and many other unfortunate ...

Black Light

52 reviews
Stephen Hunter

Island Books, 1997

Hunter and Swagger - A Winning Combination
Going back through some of my recent reads, I remembered that I was really happy with Stephen Hunter and his character, Bob Lee Swagger. Time to revisit both with Black Light. The novel begins with Earl Swagger, Bob Lee's father, in 1955. Earl is a Medal of Honor recipient for his efforts in the Pacific during World War II. 1955 finds Earl on patrol as an Arkansas State Trooper. On one ...

The 47th Samurai: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel

69 reviews
Stephen Hunter

Simon & Schuster, 2007

really good
I really liked it. It was my second Hunter book after POI. Another great American novel. Some of the other reviews talk about some parts being unbelievable; I thought that most of this was explained by the spiritual help his father was giving him from above. I am on to my next Hunter novel.

Havana: An Earl Swagger Novel (Earl Swagger Novels)

56 reviews
Stephen Hunter

Pocket, 2005

Earl Swagger Hunts Again!
I fell in love with Stephen Hunter's Earl Swagger novels this year. Luckily I discovered the first one at the beginning and listened to them on audiobook in order. There are three of them so far. HOT SPRINGS, PALE HORSE COMING, and HAVANA. The Swagger name may sound familiar to people. Mark Wahlberg just starred in the movie SHOOTER as Earl's son, Bob Lee Swagger. Stephen Hunter has been ...

Hot Springs (Earl Swagger Novels)

80 reviews
Stephen Hunter

Pocket, 2001

Fantastic Author
This is my Third Stephen Hunter novel. I can't believe I have gone this long in my life without ever hearing of him. Each book seems to better than the last. I read Point of Impact first (having seen the movie) then Day Before Midnight. I can not wait to read the next. Sure, there may be a flaw here and there and maybe even a stretch of the plot to get from point to point, but the writing is so ...

Dirty White Boys

72 reviews
Stephen Hunter

Island Books, 1995

super novel
Inside the mind of a brilliant sociopath....why would any of us want to go there? Perhaps to understand , or try to understand, what normal people cannot even imagine. Nature vs nurture......this is an exciting book but sad and morose as well. Sad that humans who can be so much can also be so little, so terrible. you absolutely MUST read this book prior to reading Black Light!!!!!! No ...

Time to Hunt

126 reviews
Stephen Hunter

Island Books, 1999

This Writer Dog Can Hunt!!
This is the 4th novel I've read by this author and I haven't read a bad one yet. Time to Hunt tells more of the beginnings of Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger and his sidekick spotter, Donny Fenn. Where the first novel - Point of Impact - glossed over this time period, Time To Hunt tells it all from way back from the late 60's to modern day. A fantastic, character driven story that never lets up ...

The Master Sniper

43 reviews
Stephen Hunter

Island Books, 1996

Master novel
Hunter does a great job setting this novel back in the time of WW2. Character and plot development is good. Action is very fast paced. I did find some of the combat situations a bit implausible but then I have never partaken of that particular pastime myself-certainly not in WW2. The character of Repp is developed well-a person who seems not sociopathic as much as simply devoid of any normal ...

Point of Impact

179 reviews
Stephen Hunter

Bantam, 1993

Shooter Movie Versus Point of Impact Book
Shooter Movie Versus Point of Impact Book: The Bob Lee Swagger story lines in the book and the movie are different in character building, action, and political satire. Very understandable, screen productions can rarely replicate a book. Although I hesitate to "spill the beans" on the movie or the book, but the movie is so entertaining that I watch it over and over and the Point of Impact ...

American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman--and the Shoot-out that Stopped It

27 reviews
Stephen Hunter, John Jr. Bainbridge

Simon & Schuster, 2005

This is a winner!
This has everything you want in a good book. A great story, history, drama, and pathos. I am a history teacher and was impressed by both the depth of research and the quality of the writing. This is about 2 Puerto Rican Nationalists who, compelled by their fervent beliefs, tried to assassinate President Harry Truman in 1950. Most people do not realize how close they came to succeeding. The ...

Violent Screen: A Critic's 13 Years on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem (Expedition Series)

9 reviews
Stephen Hunter

Delta, 1996

A favorite author of thrillers is a movie critic
I've read many of Stephen Hunter's novels, and have some more yet to read. This book, Violent Screen, intrigued me by its title because I have long noted that Hollywood, populated as it is with a preponderance of liberal, anti-gun, anti-violence sob sisters, cannot seem to make a movie without featuring gun violence, homicidal car chases, and other socially unacceptable action on a grand scale. ...

Pale Horse Coming

83 reviews
Stephen Hunter

Pocket, 2002

Simply a good story!
A Pale Horse Coming is simply a great story. It is entertaining, has an intriguing plot, and good character development. Written along the lines of the movie High Noon, Earl Swagger finds himself yet again in the world of bad men and evil times. His heroic ideals carry him through to a rousing conclusion. Is the story plausible? Probably not, but in the world of fiction anything is possible ...

Now Playing at the Valencia: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays on Movies

3 reviews
Stephen Hunter

Simon & Schuster, 2005

Compulsively readable
Movies are a populist art form, and Stephen Hunter is a people's movie reviewer, giving deft and entertaining analysis for about 100 "popcorn" movies within the 330 pages of this book. No Pauline Kael, he evinces more relish than reverence for film. He seems to have as much fun writing about bad movies as about good ones, and he (at least in this volume) barely touches on foreign films, ...

The Spanish Gambit

4 reviews
Stephen Hunter

Charter Books, 1986

Just Cgeckin in
I f you actually look at your own reviews I used to live in 7687 and played with Jr. Just to say espaniol es un inteligente lingue pero el salvador es bueno. y en S padre the skys are beautiful in Jan. Love ya BJBarber Comm.

Tapestry of Spies

15 reviews
Stephen Hunter

Island Books, 1997

Great book
The books brilliant, I don't care what anyone else says. It's pessimistic sure, but it's the spanish civil war for crissakes. For a piece of fiction, it's as true as any other book about the spanish civil war. The George Orwell/Cambridge Five spy ring connection is pulled off beautifully. After you've read the book, look up "Julian Bell" on Wikipedia.

Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip

12 reviews
Robert Hunter, Stephen Peters, ...

DK ADULT, 2003

Coffee Table Dead
This is a Large, Thick and Heavy Book. Based on a Timeline that begins in 1940 and ends in 2003, this is Quite a Feast for the eyes. If you are New to the Music of The Grateful Dead and have never seen one of the other Hundreds of Books about The Band, this will fill you in on THOUSANDS of Details. If this Book was used as a Guide to bring you into the World that is The Grateful Dead, well... ...

The Second Saladin

19 reviews
Stephen Hunter

Island Books, 1998

A Book About the Kurds 10 Years Too Early
Anyway, thoe book was good, as I find all of Hunter's books to be. A former CIA "Cowboy," a man who goes into countries hostile to the US, in this novel its the Soviet backed Iraq, arms and trains rebels, the Kurds with guerilla tactics, is sold out. In the backlash of the sell out, his brefriended leader's son is killed. Fast forward to 10 years later and man is trying to cope with the sell out, ...

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