NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Bob Lee Swagger is a true American literary icon.”–Mark Greaney, New York Times Bestselling Author of Mission CriticalIn this blazing new thriller from Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter, master sniper Bob Lee Swagger takes on his biggest job to date…and confronts an assassin with skills that match his own. When Bob Lee Swagger is approached by a woman who lost a son to … own.
When Bob Lee Swagger is approached by a woman who lost a son to war and has spent the years since risking all that she has to find the sniper who pulled the trigger, he knows right away he’ll do everything in his power to help her. But what begins as a favor becomes an obsession, and soon Swagger is back in the action, teaming up with the Mossad, the FBI, and local American law enforcement as he tracks a sniper who is his own equal…and attempts to decipher that assassin’s ultimate target before it’s too late.
With all-too-real threats and a twisty, masterful storytelling, Game of Snipers is another gripping addition to a bestselling Bob Lee Swagger series.
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I’ve been through the thick and thin with Stephen Hunter ‘s Bob Lee Swagger. I was with him when he watched his dad gunned down to the jungles of Vietnam and through many other novels. I have never regretted a nickel that I spent on any novel that that I bought written by Stephen Hunter. I consider him one of my top five favorite authors. Don’t miss a book of his if you can help it.
Wowser – another great Swagger tale
I have been a fan of author Stephen Hunter since POINT OF IMPACT. That particular book changed my mind about reading. I would have never thought I would appreciate a book about a sniper. But that book is one of my top ten of all time.
I’ve read most of Hunter’s books since that time and loved the beginning ones. But, to me, there was a huge slump over the last few books. Hunter is back in fine form.
I missed the actual detail-oriented shooting books and I missed Bob Lee Swagger as a shooter. He is back in this book, 72 years old, and living in Idaho, rocking on his front porch. One day a woman, a mother, shows up to request his help. For years she has singlehandedly been trying to find the sniper who killed her son in 2003 in Baghdad. She now requests Swagger’s help in making the sniper pay for that death.
I’m not going to give any more details other than there’s a lot of sniper info on weapons, ammo, and all the minutiae that go into making a long distance shot.
I loved the book and I highly recommend it to those fans, especially the ones who loved the early Swagger books.
I received this book from Putnam Books in the hopes that I would read/review it and leave an unbiased review.