New Releases by Stephen Hunter

A second chance... In the windswept sands of the Middle East, Paul Chardy fought side by side with Ulu Beg: one, a charismatic, high-strung CIA covert warrior, the other a ferocious freedom fighter. Then Chardy fell into the hands of the enemy, and Beg was betrayed. Now the two men are about to meet again. A second gun... Beg has come over the Mexican border under a hail of bullets--determined to assassinate a leading American political figure and avenge his people''s betrayal. The CIA wants Chardy to stop the hit. Chardy wants to save Beg''s life. Between the two men is a tragic past, a failed mission, and a woman who knew them in war--and who knows their secrets now. Around both men is a conspiracy of lies and violence that reaches back to the Cold War. But as Beg moves in for his kill and as Chardy breaks loose from his handlers, a terrible truth begins to emerge: somewhere, someone wants both men to die.

“Stephen Hunter is in a class by himself. Time to Hunt is as vivid and haunting as a moving target in the crosshairs of a sniper scope.”—Nelson Demille, author of Mayday He is the most dangerous man alive. He only wants to live in peace with his family, and forget the war that nearly killed him. . . . It''s not going to happen. Stephen Hunter''s epic national bestsellers, Point of Impact and Black Light, introduced millions of readers to Bob Lee Swagger, called “Bob the Nailer,” a heroic but flawed Vietnam War veteran forced twice to use his skills as a master sniper to defend his life and his honor. Now, in his grandest, most intensely thrilling adventure yet, Bob the Nailer must face his deadliest foe from Vietnam—and his own demons—to save his wife and daughter. During the latter days of the Vietnam War, deep in-country, a young idealistic Marine named Donny Fenn was cut down by a sniper''s bullet as he set out on patrol with Swagger, who himself received a grievous wound. Years later Swagger married Donny''s widow, Julie, and together they raise their daughter, Nikki, on a ranch in the isolated Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho. Although he struggles with the painful legacy of Vietnam, Swagger''s greatest wish—to leave his violent past behind and live quietly with his family—seems to have come true. Then one idyllic day, a man, a woman, and a girl set out from the ranch on horseback. High on a ridge above a mountain pass, a thousand yards distant, a calm, cold-eyed shooter, one of the world''s greatest marksmen, peers through a telescopic sight at the three approaching figures. Out of his tortured past, a mortal enemy has once again found Bob the Nailer. Time to Hunt proves anew why so many consider Stephen Hunter to be our best living thriller writer. With a plot that sweeps from the killing fields of Vietnam to the corridors of power in Washington to the shadowy plots of the new world order, Hunter delivers all the complex, stay-up-all-night action his fans demand in a masterful tale of family heartbreak and international intrigue—and shows why, for Bob Lee Swagger, it''s once again time to hunt. Praise for Time to Hunt “Stephen Hunter is simply the best writer of action fiction in the world and Time to Hunt proves it.”—Phillip Margolin, author of The Burning Man “The best straight-up thriller writer at work today.”—Rocky Mountain News

Only one thing stands between a son and his father''s killer: forty years of lies. . . On a remote Arizona ranch, a man who has known loss, fear, and war weeps for the first time since he was a child. His tears are for the father taken from him four decades before in a deadly shoot-out. And his grief will lead him back to the place where he was born, where his father died, and where a brutal conspiracy is about to explode. For Bob Lee Swagger, the world changed on that hot day in Blue Eye, Arkansas, when two local boys rode armed and wild in a ''55 Fairlane convertible. Swagger''s father, Earl, a state trooper, was investigating the brutal murder of a young woman that day. By midnight Earl Swagger lay dead in a deserted cornfield. Now Bob Lee wants answers. He wants to know the truth behind the shoot -out that took his father''s life, a mystery buried in forty years of lies. Because for Bob Lee Swagger, the killing didn''t end that day in Blue Eye, Arkansas. The killing had just begun . . . Weaving together characters from his national bestsellers Point of Impact and Dirty White Boys, Stephen Hunter''s gripping thriller builds to an exhilarating climax—and an explosion of gunfire that blasts open the secrets of two generations. Praise for Black Light “Put on your seat belt—Black Light is a wild ride you won''t forget.”—The Chicago Tribune “Nobody writes action better than Stephen Hunter and Black Light is one of his best. . . [The] action scenes play like a movie, the plot is intriguing and the writing is top-notch.”—Phillip Margolin “Only a handful of writers today can match Hunter for imagination and the ability to make a reader''s adrenaline rush.”—New York Daily News “Filled with detail, clever plotting, suspense, and a hunt to the death that leaves the reader dry-mouthed with tension. Hunter knows his guns, and he writes about them with a precision that holds the attention of even a fervent anti-gun supporter.”—The Orlando Sentinel “One of the most skilled hands in the thriller business. The plot is fast-paced, well-constructed and builds to a pulse-pounding night ambush. . . . It should seal his reputation as an author who not only can write bestselling thrillers, but write them exceedingly well.”—Publishers Weekly

In the death throes of World War II, one man is still at war, and he’s got got the world’s deadliest weapon in his hands . . . With a sniper’s rifle he has calmly executed hundreds of enemy soldiers in a single battle, and gunned down thousands of innocent civilians in a single day, waiting patiently for the barrel of his gun to cool before resuming his craft . . . It is the spring of 1945. And Repp, the master sniper, is about to carry out his final mission—even as Germay’s enemies overrun it, even while a tired, disorganized team of American and British agents tries everything in its power to stop him. Because for Repp, this is the one job at which he cannot fail. For this time, he possesses the ultimate killing tool. And with it, he will commit the ultimate crime. . . . Praise for The Master Sniper “Mesmerizing suspense.”—Kirkus Reviews “Hunter is a deft craftsman with a sure sense of pace and scene. He also knows about irony and sprinkles just a bit over every corpse.”—The Washington Post “Stephen Hunter is the best writer of straight-out thrillers working today.”—Rocky Mountain News

전 세계가 그를 대통령 암살미수범으로 지목했다! 스티븐 헌터 장편소설 『탄착점』. 이 책은 거대한 음모와 맞서 싸우는 저격수 밥 리 스왜거의 영화 더블 타겟의 원작소설이다. 대통령 암살미수범이라는 누명을 쓴 천재 스나이퍼가 무죄를 입증하기 위해 암흑의 세력과 맞서 싸우는 이야기가 흥미진진하게 그려진다. 베트남전 참전용사이자 천재적인 저격수 밥 리 스왜거가 등장하는「밥 리 스왜거 시리즈」제1편으로, 쉴 새 없이 몰아치는 음모와 거듭되는 반전, 그리고 눈을 뗄 수 없는 화려한 저격 액션이 돋보인다. ☞ 이 책의 줄거리! 냉철한 두뇌와 완벽한 저격술을 갖춘 전설적인 스타이퍼, 밥 리 스왜거. 부상으로 제대한 후 산속에서 홀로 은둔생활을 하던 그는 어느 날 최신형 탄환의 발사 실험을 제의받는다. 실험 도중 스왜거는 이 일에 베트남전에서 자신을 죽음 직전까지 몰아간 러시아 저격수가 관련되어 있음을 알고 적극 협조한다. 그러던 중 스왜거는 함정에 빠지고, 간신히 도망치지만 대통령 암살미수 혐의로 수배된다. 자신을 모종의 음모로 몰아넣은 그들에게 복수하기 위해 스왜거가 다시금 총을 들었다.

The explosive New York Times bestseller by Stephen Hunter that sends ex-Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger into the thick of an FBI investigation and features some of the greatest gunfights ever to grace the page. It takes a seasoned killer… Four famed ‘60s radicals are gunned down at long range by a sniper. All the evidence—timeline, ballistics, forensics, motive, means, and opportunity—points to Marine war hero Carl Hitchcock. Even his suicide. The case is almost too perfect. …to hunt one. Recruited by the FBI to examine the data, retired Marine sharpshooter Bob Lee Swagger penetrates the new technology of the secretive sniper world to unravel a sophisticated conspiracy run by his most ruthless adversary yet—a marksman whose keen intellect and pinpoint accuracy rival his own. But when the enemy and his deadly henchmen mistake Bob for the hunted, it’s clear that some situations call for a good man with a gun…and the guts to use it.

“A breathtaking, fascinating look at what could happen—given the possibility of an atomic ‘given.’ A wrap-up you''ll never forget.”—Robert Ludlum The countdown begins when welder Jack Hummel is abducted from his suburban Maryland home ans whisked to the South Mountain MX missile site—a top-secret nuclear complex now taken over by paramilitary terrorists. All that stands between the Uzi-armed commandos and the launch button is a half-ton titanium block. They want Jack Hummel to cut through it—so they can unleash a devastatingly brilliant plot that threatens global disaster. Now a Delta Force veteran and a think-tank defense wizard must get inside South Mountain—by defeating their own super-security systems and a darkly ingenious enemy leader . . . . . . while Jack Hummel''s torch burns closer and closer to the launch key . . . while the clock ticks closer to midnight—and Armageddon. Praise for The Day Before Midnight “Rockets toward a shattering climax like an incoming missile.”—Stephen Coonts, author of Flight of the Intruder and Final Flight “Nonstop action and mounting tension.”—The New York Times Book Review “Slam-bang action and relentless suspense.”—The Washington Post “The novel crackles and jolts.”—Chicago Tribune “The one to beat this year in the nail-biter class . . . an edge-of-the-seat doomsday countdown thriller.”—Daily News, New York

In 1951, after Sam Vincent disappears while investigating a prison for violent African American convicts in Thebes, Mississippi, Earl Swagger finds himself confronting a town guarded by a private army of brutal, racist White thugs.

Deep in the heart of Dixie for a weeklong NASCAR event, Bob Lee Swagger, protagonist of "Point of Impact," returns in this explosively gritty thrill ride as he metes justice out to those who targeted his reporter-daughter.

“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.

November 1, 1950 -- an unseasonably hot afternoon in sleepy Washington, D.C. At 2:00 P.M. at his temporary residence in Blair House, President Harry Truman takes a nap. At 2:20 P.M., two Puerto Rican natives approach from different directions. Oscar Collazo, a respected metal polisher and family man, and Griselio Torresola, an unemployed salesman, don''t look dangerous, not in their new suits and hats, not in their calm, purposeful demeanor, not in their slow, unexcited approach. What the three White House policemen and one Secret Service agent guarding the president cannot guess is that under each man''s coat is a 9mm German automatic pistol and in each head, a dream of assassin''s glory.

Thriller.

From Pulitzer Prize-Winning Movie Critic Stephen Hunter Comes A Brilliant, Freewheeling, And Witty Look At The Movies. Evanston, Illinois, was an idyllic 1950s paradise with stately homes, a beautiful lake, a world-class university, two premier movie houses, and one very seedy movie theater -- the Valencia. This was the site of Washington Post film critic Stephen Hunter''s misspent youth. Instead of going to school, picking up girls, or tossing a football, Hunter could be found sitting in the fifteenth row, right-hand aisle seat of the Valencia, sating himself on one B-list movie after another. The Valencia had a sticky floor, smelly bathrooms, ancient popcorn, and a screen set in a hideously tacky papier-mache castle wall. It was also the only place in town to see westerns, sci-fi pictures, cops ''n'' robbers flicks, slapstick comedy, and Godzilla. In Now Playing at the Valencia, the author of such bestselling novels as Havana and Pale Horse Coming has compiled his favorite movie reviews written between 1997 and 2003, bringing to the discussion the passionate feelings for cinema he discovered in the ''50s, a time when genres were forming, mesmerizing stars played unforgettable characters, and enduring classics were made. While filmmaking has changed tremendously since Hunter first frequented the Valencia, the view from the fifteenth row, and the thrill of down and dirty entertainment, has remained the same.

"We Shall Never Forget" is a collection of exciting real-life stories about our hometown military heroes from the Edgewater/Annapolis, Maryland area. The book was written by Eagle Scout Stephen Hunter with the assistance of fellow Scouts Curtis Hatch, Daniel Hunter, Eric Kalin, James Metz and Jason Palumbo. It''s a tribute to the men and women who fought and died to protect our freedom, beginning in Berlin during World War II, where U.S. Army Sgt. Chuck Roydhouse suffered near-fatal wounds in helping to free allied soldiers from Nazi prison camps, to the jungles of Vietnam where Navy pilot Bill Lawrence risked his life to complete his bombing mission and ended up serving seven years in a concentration camp, along with U.S. Senator John McCain, and on to the deserts of Afghanistan, where Army Black Hawk helicopter pilot Tommy Gibbons sacrificed his very life during Operation Enduring Freedom. This book also features the brave adventures of Astronaut and Helicopter Pilot Wendy Lawrence, Pacific Ocean Rescuer Robert McNitt, Distinguished Soldier and police detective Charlie Cowell, Vietnam helicopter pilot Mike Williams, Old Guard veteran Butch Trainum, Vietnam veteran Buddy Jones and decorated Marine James Parrish.

The hottest love story ever written about striped bass, Stripah Love sizzles like a fried clam, is more refreshing than the first beer of the day, and, in the words of one of its characters, is "more original than Carter has Little Liver Pills." Set in the beachfront community of Indian Mound off of Boston Harbor, just south of downtown.

New York Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter takes beloved hero, Earl Swagger, into the lush world of 1950''s Cuba to fight the American mobsters who control the Havana casinos. Cuba 1953: The island is on fire. The Mafia-run casinos are rolling, and it''s just a 30-minute flight from Miami to a world of vice, gambling, sex, and drugs. The money is there for anyone who knows how to get it, including the Cuban government and the police, who want to keep their ally Uncle Sam happy. There''s only one threat to this corrupt utopia: a silver-tongued, daring young revolutionary named Fidel Castro. With the Cold War underway, the Soviet Union has sent a sophisticated veteran agent to find and support the young upstart. To counter, the CIA has summoned Medal of Honor-winning ex-marine Sergeant Earl Swagger, whose heroic exploits have earned him the reputation of a man who doesn''t know how to lose. But he''s not just going to find Castro... He''s going to kill him.

Bob Lee Swagger est un héros. Il tire et fait mouche à tous les coups. Sans doute tient-il cela de son père, Earl Swagger, flic émérite, abattu lors d''une fusillade en 1955. Quarante ans plus tard, un écrivain vient débusquer Bob Lee, reclus en Arizona, pour faire la lumière sur la mort de son père. Bob Lee reprend du service. Retour à Blue Eye, Arkansas. Il faut déterrer les cadavres. A commencer par celui d''une jeune Noire découvert par Earl quelques heures avant sa propre fin. Bob Lee Swagger, ancien tireur d''élite du Vietnam, héros de Romeo Dog, a le regard aussi froid qu''une lunette infrarouge. Il s''attaque au mystère d''une affaire personnelle classée. A ses trousses, les fantômes du passé et leurs fils bien vivants, homme politique ou mafieux. Les ténèbres appartiennent au tireur qui voit dans le noir. " Il n''y a que Stephen Hunter pour inventer des types avec des flingues comme ça. Lumière Noire est un roman sensationnel. " Elmore Leonard

Ils sont trois à s''échapper d''un pénitencier de l''Oklahoma. Lamar Pye, une brute à la force sauvage, criminel endurci. Son cousin, Odell, un colosse, handicapé mental, qui parle à peine et obéit aveuglément à Lamar Pye. Et, enfin, Richard Peed, artiste blond et délicat, jeune homme bien élevé qui a crevé les yeux de sa mère. Les détenus noirs du pénitencier les ont surnommés "Dirty White Boys". Les sales petits blancs. Ils vont justifier leur réputation au cours d''une cavale sanglante, ponctuée d''agressions et de meurtres qui les mènera au cœur du Texas. Pourchassés par un flic implacable et brutal, Bud Pewtie, qui trompe sa femme avec celle de son co-équipier. La lutte entre Lamar Pye et Bud Pewtie deviendra une affaire personnelle qui se réglera au cours d''un dénouement tout en férocité.

They busted out of McAlester State Penitentiary--three escaped convicts going to ground in a world unprepared for anything like them.... Lamar Pye is prince of the Dirty White Boys. With a lion in his soul, he roars--for he is the meanest, deadliest animal on the loose.... Odell is Lamar''s cousin, a hulking manchild with unfeeling eyes. He lives for daddy Lamar. Surely he will die for him.... Richard''s survival hangs on a sketch: a crude drawing of a lion and a half-naked woman. For this Lamar has let Richard live... Armed to the teeth, Lamar and his boys have cut a path of terror across the Southwest, and pushed one good cop into a crisis of honor and conscience. Trooper Bud Pewtie should have died once at Lamar''s hands. Now they''re about to meet again. And this time, only one of them will walk away....

Gun buff, movie critic and bestselling author of Dirty White Boys, Stephen Hunter takes aim at 13 years of violence on the big screen, hitting the highlights and the lowlifes, the thrills, the chills, and the kills, with deadly precision, explosive prose and devastating good humor.

Ein Scharfschütze, der im Auftrag des CIA ein Attentat auf den US-Präsidenten verhindern soll, wird plötzlich selbst als Mörder gesucht und muss seine Unschuld beweisen. - Actionthriller.

Robert Florry is blackmailed by British intelligence into hunting down an old friend of his, a former soldier in the Spanish Civil War and an alleged Soviet agent.