Stephen Hunter, Author Island $7.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-440-22187-6
In the spring of 1945, Lieutenant-Colonel Repp, the titular sharpshooter of this compelling thriller, has been charged by his Nazi superiors in the collapsing Third Reich to commit a particularly despicable assassination. Aided by the deadly...
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Stephen Hunter. Simon & Schuster, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4767-6485-6
Set in London in the fall of 1888, Hunter’s intriguing standalone provides fresh insights into the Jack the Ripper case through three different, though not always coherent, perspectives. An opportunistic reporter, who refers to himself as Jeb, gets...
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Stephen Hunter. Simon & Schuster, $27.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4516-4021-2
Bestseller Hunter's absorbing ninth Bob Lee Swagger novel (after 2013's The Third Bullet) finds Swagger retired and living on a farm in the Pacific Northwest with an emotionally unsatisfied wife and memories of his sniper glory days. Swagger finds...
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Stephen Hunter. Simon & Schuster, $26.99 (496p) ISBN 978-1-4516-4020-5
In bestseller Hunter’s solid eighth thriller featuring master sniper Bob Lee Swagger (after 2010’s Dead Zero), Swagger is living an isolated existence in a small Idaho town, where a widow seeking justice for her husband seeks him out. Novelist James
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Stephen Hunter. Simon & Schuster, $26.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4391-3870-0
Former Marine sniper Ray Cruz, the 42-year-old half-Asian son of Bob Lee Swagger, who was introduced in 2010’s Dead Zero, plays a central role in Hunter’s fast-paced thriller. The Friday after Thanksgiving, terrorists begin their attack on America,...
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Stephen Hunter, Author Doubleday Books $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-48042-0
With a flourish of authorial prestidigitation, through this action-packed tale of revenge Hunter transforms the seemingly unrelated Point of Impact and Dirty White Boys, his most recent-and most critically acclaimed-novels, into parts one and two of
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Stephen Hunter, Author Random House (NY) $21 (436p) ISBN 978-0-679-43751-2
Often brilliant, and permeated by violence, Hunter's sixth thriller (after Point of Impact) details an escaped mad-dog killer's flight across the Southwest and a tortured state trooper's pursuit of him. Sadistic Lamar Pye is forced to break out of...
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Stephen Hunter, Author Bantam Books $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07139-9
Bob Lee Swagger, jungle-smart hillbilly and premier shootist, explodes as a thinking man's Rambo when Hunter's ( The Day Before Midnight ) canny plot overcomes the barrage of high-tech ballistics data in this otherwise satisfying thriller. Swagger's
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Stephen Hunter, Author Bantam $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05327-2
Hunter ( The Spanish Gambit ) has written a smoothly believable race-against-time thriller with frightening plausibility. Unidentified military terrorists kidnap welder Jack Hummel from his Maryland home and direct him to cut through a block of...
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Stephen Hunter, Author Island $7.99 (528p) ISBN 978-0-440-22313-9
Point of Impact hero Bob Swagger is back and in hot pursuit of the man who killed his father. (May)
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Stephen Hunter, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (496p) ISBN 978-0-684-86361-0
Earl Swagger, the gritty WWII-vet hero of Hunter's bestselling thriller Hot Springs, is back in this virtually un-put-downable gothic chiller about unspeakable evil in the murky Mississippi bayous. In 1951, five years after the conclusion of Hot
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Stephen Hunter, Author Island $7.99 (496p) ISBN 978-0-440-22179-1
Hunter's newest thriller recounts the story of three brutal escaped convicts and the obsessive state trooper who pursues them. (Dec.)
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Stephen Hunter, Simon & Schuster, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4391-3865-6
Several months after the betrayal of a covert operation in Afghanistan leaves a Marine sniper team dead, the target of that mission, top Taliban commander Ibrahim Zarzi (aka "the Beheader"), changes sides, in bestseller Hunter's stellar seventh Bob...
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Stephen Hunter, Author Simon & Schuster $25 (480p) ISBN 978-0-684-86360-3
Furnished with brilliant period detail and a dynamo of a lead character, this big, brawny crime drama recountsDin highly fictionalized formDthe true story of the backlash against corruption and decadence in Hot Springs, Ark., during the years...
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Stephen Hunter, Author Simon & Schuster $26 (418p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6515-4
Bestseller Hunter keeps Bob Lee Swagger, his home-spun, hard-charging hero, doing what Swagger does best in his sixth novel to feature the former Marine sniper: thwarting the authorities, staying loyal to a disappearing code of honor and hunting...
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Stephen Hunter, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (290p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6511-6
Near the start of Hunter's cartoonish fifth Bob Lee Swagger thriller (after The 47th Samurai
), Nikki Swagger, the series hero's journalist daughter, is seriously injured when a hit man runs her car off the road in Tennessee hill country....
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Stephen Hunter, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7432-3809-0
Bob Lee Swagger, retired marine master sniper and hero of bestseller Hunter’s 1993 thriller, Point of Impact
(forthcoming as the film Shooter
), returns in this riveting homage to the myth of the samurai. Philip Yano, the son of the Japanese...
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Stephen Hunter, Author . Simon & Schuster $15 (345p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6125-8
Transferring his boyhood passion for 1950s B-movies to today's digitized blockbusters, Washington Post
critic Hunter celebrates Hollywood's great populist entertainments. He gathers his reviews of the last decade's worth of pictures,...
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Stephen Hunter, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (403p) ISBN 978-0-7432-3808-3
The term thriller
is too pallid for this powerful, satisfying novel in the 1950s-set Earl Swagger series from bestseller Hunter (Time to Hunt; Hot Springs; Pale Horse Coming). At times the book reads as if it were chiseled out of granite, with...
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Stephen Hunter, Author, John Bainbridge, Jr., Author Simon & Schuster $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6068-8
On November 1, 1950, two Puerto Rican nationalists, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola, engaged in a sustained gun battle with Secret Service agents at Blair House. Their goal was to assassinate President Harry Truman. It's curious that the...
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Stephen Hunter. Blue Rider, $27 (464p) ISBN 978-0-399-57460-3
Hunter’s outstanding 10th Bob Lee Swagger novel (after 2014’s Sniper’s Honor) takes readers back to the gangster days of the 1930s. In the present, Swagger investigates the murky past of his grandfather, Charles, a hard, taciturn man who spent most...
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Stephen Hunter. Putnam, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-57457-3
Early in bestseller Hunter’s stellar 12th Bob Lee Swagger novel (after 2017’s G-Man), a stranger, Janet McDowell, shows up at Bob’s Idaho ranch and asks him for help tracking down the sniper who fatally shot her Marine son, Lance Cpl. Thomas...
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Stephen Hunter. Mysterious, $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-61316-224-8
British Army Capt. Basil St. Florian, the hero of this terrific WWII thriller from bestseller Hunter (the Bob Lee Swagger series), is known for his wit, his bravery as a Special Operations Executive agent, and as a man who enjoys dating film stars...
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Stephen Hunter. Atria/Bestler, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-1-9821-6979-4
In bestseller Hunter’s superb 12th Bob Lee Swagger novel, a determined New York Times reporter wants to interview Bob, who’s 74, about his part in recently bringing down a bad guy known as Juba the Sniper in 2019’s Game of Snipers. Bob, who’s...
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Stephen Hunter. Atria/Bestler, $28.99 (480p) ISBN 978-1-9821-6976-3
Bestseller Hunter’s superb fourth Earl Swagger novel (after 2003’s Havana) details the sniper’s origin story. It’s 1944, and Marine Gunnery Sgt. Earl Swagger, a veteran of three Pacific island campaigns—Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Tarawa—is at...
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Stephen Hunter. Atria/Bestler, $28.99 (480p) ISBN 978-1-66803-036-3
The excellent latest from Pulitzer winner Hunter (Basil’s War) showcases three generations of the crime-fighting Swagger family in stylistically diverse tales of violence and corruption. In “City of Meat”—an exercise in social realism that recalls...
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