GMan, Stephen Hunter
GMan, Stephen Hunter
5 Rating(s)
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G-Man

Author: Stephen Hunter

Narrator: R.C. Bray

Unabridged: 14 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/16/2017


Synopsis

"A roaring good read." —FORBES.comMaster sniper Bob Lee Swagger returns in this riveting novel by bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winner Stephen Hunter.Ryan Philippe currently stars as Bob Lee Swagger on the hit USA Network series Shooter.The Great Depression was marked by an epidemic of bank robberies and Tommy-gun-toting outlaws who became household names. Hunting them down was the new U.S. Division of Investigation—soon to become the FBI—which was determined to nab the most dangerous gangster this country has ever produced: Baby Face Nelson. To stop him, the Bureau recruited talented gunman Charles Swagger, World War I hero and sheriff of Polk County, Arkansas.Eighty years later, Charles's grandson Bob Lee Swagger uncovers a strongbox containing an array of memorabilia dating back to 1934—a federal lawman's badge, a .45 automatic preserved in cosmoline, a mysterious gun part, and a cryptic diagram—all belonging to Charles Swagger. Bob becomes determined to find out what happened to his grandfather—and why his own father never spoke of Charles. But as he investigates, Bob learns that someone is following him—and shares his obsession.Told in alternating timeframes, G-Man is a thrilling addition to Stephen Hunter's bestselling Bob Lee Swagger series.

About Stephen Hunter

Stephen Hunter is the author of more than twenty 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. His novel, Point of Impact, was adapted for film as Shooter, starring Mark Wahlberg. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathleen on August 29, 2017

I liked it, but I would like it better as a condensed book. I don't even know where to start unpacking this one... I won this in a Goodreads giveaway. Thank you so much to everyone who makes these giveaways available. This is the first Stephen Hunter book I've read and despite being #10 in a series,......more

Goodreads review by Carol on March 28, 2020

After the 47th Samurai, my expectations for this book were so low that I couldn't possibly have been disappointed. But amazingly this turned out to be one of the best of the later novels in the Bob Lee Swagger series! For many years, Swagger fans of wanted the "origins story" of the Swagger family. B......more

Goodreads review by Randal on August 15, 2017

Hunter's Jumped The Shark! Years ago, I was a huge fan of the author's "Bob Lee Swagger" series of books. I can remember my father-in-law and I devouring them, and having spirited discussions about them. Then, along about the time Hunter began the "Earl Swagger" series, the author's plot lines devol......more

Goodreads review by Joe on May 26, 2017

Somewhere within this concrete block of a novel, under the preposterously-macho dialogue, away from the run-on sentences filled with description upon description upon description, not to mention chapters worth of the intricacies involved with breaking down firearms, there lays a cool, fast story of......more