Authors: Stephen Hunter, Beau Bridges
ISBN-13: 9780739354476, ISBN-10: 0739354477
Format: MP3 Book
Publisher: Random House Audio Publishing Group
Date Published: December 2007
Edition: Abridged
Stephen Hunter has written 16 novels. The retired chief film critic for The Washington Post, where he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, he has also published two collections of film criticism and a nonfiction work, American Gunfight. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
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.
It s one of those novels that will keep you from getting up out of your favorite chair, as you just have to find out what happens next.