Point of Impact, Stephen Hunter
Point of Impact, Stephen Hunter
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Point of Impact

Author: Stephen Hunter

Narrator: Beau Bridges

Abridged: 2 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/30/2007


Synopsis

“A harsh, visceral, novel of conspiracy and betrayal . . . a distrubing mix that plays on our sense of history while at the same time it appeals to our darkest fantasies of rough justice.”—Chicago Tribune 

The inspiration for the USA Network series Shooter 

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.

About The Author

Bestselling author Stephen Hunter is a staff writer and film critic for The Washington Post and winner of The American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for Distinguished Writing in Criticism (1998), as well as the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for film criticism. He has written many novels, including Havana, Pale Horse Coming, and The Day Before Midnight.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on November 28, 2016

I like this book. There are things in it that bug me a bit, but on the whole nothing that really requires comment. Bob Lee Swagger is a solitary man who lives alone in the Arkansas hills with his dog and his rifles. He loves to shoot though he doesn't hunt for meat anymore as since the war, he's lost......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin on January 08, 2022

I had read the novel Hot Springs by Stephen Hunter several years ago and had been pleasantly surprised by the quality of the work. And then, about a year later I saw the movie, "Shooter" starring Mark Wahlberg and once again, came away pleasantly surprised. I realized that the movie was based on the......more

Goodreads review by Jade on March 13, 2022

In Stephen Hunter Point of Impact we get to meet Bob Lee Swagger a former sniper now living now a normal life, but is shattered when he is visited a shadowy man offers him a chance to nail a Russian sniper the action cheats up when the he was the CIA secret-black ops unit. This was not nonstop read......more

Goodreads review by Mike on May 26, 2015

3 Things not to do: Tug on Superman's cape Spit into the wind Mess with Bob Lee Swagger A wild ride from start to finish. Make sure your seatbelts are fastened and your hands are inside the vehicle at all times! I thought J Carson Black's Cyril Landry was tough, but he is a wimp compared to Bob Lee! A m......more

Goodreads review by Olaf on October 06, 2018

Toller Thriller von Stephen Hunter, dessen Held in jeder Situation noch ein Ass im Ärmel hat.......more


Quotes

"Hunter passes almost everybody else in the thriller-writing trade as if they were standing still . . . worth every extravagant rave."New York Daily News