THE STEPHEN HUNTER NOVELS:
The Master Sniper--
A WWII fanatic German sniper on a secret mission at the war's end, armed with a MP-44 and the "Vampir" sight.
The Second Saladin--
An Arab infiltrates the US/Mexican border to attack America. So-so.
A Tapestry of Spy's--
A Spanish Civil war spy story. So-so.
The Day Before Midnight--
A take-over of an impregnable missile site, a key to Hell, an impervious multi-ton block of titanium, a kidnapped master metal cutting expert, and two Vietnam era tunnel experts; one an American tunnel-rat, the other a Viet Cong woman.
Point of Impact--
Retired Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger is framed for attempting to assassinate the President. The plotter's mistake.....failing make SURE Swagger is DEAD.
A far-reaching plot, one of the legendary Winchester "Black Kings", a failed FBI SWAT member, and a Bob Lee who's "unhappy" with how he's been treated.
Be sure to catch the Safety Deposit Box "hook" at the end.
Black Light..
Bob Lee goes home to Arkansas to find out just how it was his hero State Trooper father came to die in a corn field shoot-out with two punks.
There were only three guns at the site, a .357, a 44 Special, and a rare .38 Super. So how come Earl died with a 110 grain .30 bullet in his heart?
Somebody doesn't want him to find out, and uses the Southern Mob to stop him......BIG mistake.
Time To Hunt--
The Russian sniper responsible for wounding Bob Lee and killing his Vietnam spotter comes after Swagger years later.
Something doesn't add up.
Swagger does his math, and starts to subtract people.
Two statements to remember...."Daddy's Home" and "Front Toward Enemy".
Dirty White boys--
Three escaped Oklahoma convicts go on a murderous crime spree, and the State Trooper who they left for dead.
He isn't a Swagger, but that doesn't matter to the escaped killers, he'll do....for them.
Hot Springs...
1940's Hot Springs Arkansas, the gambling capital of America. Earl Swagger, retired Marine Medal of Honor winner decides to clean up the town.
The town doesn't want to be cleaned up.
Swagger and Jelly take out the trash.
Pale Horse Coming--
Earl Swagger is asked to look into odd events at a notorious Southern Prison farm.
People don't like him sticking his nose into their business and do something about it.
As is common with the Swagger family, they sorely regret not making SURE he's DEAD.
Earl goes back to "settle up", taking along the most famous and deadly American gunmen in history. Among them, a young, baby-faced Medal of Honor winning Army vet-turned actor, who just happens to have brought something called a "MP-44" home.
Havana--
Earl Swagger is hired to provide protection to a sleazy Arkansas Congressman on a "fact finding" tour of 1950's Cuba's sex scene.
The Cuban Secret police, the American Mob, the CIA, the Russians, and the Cuban Communists are all involved with a young, rather stupid activist and baseball player named Fidel.
To all their regret, they get Earl involved in their convoluted plots.
Earl doesn't do convoluted, and gets back to basics real fast.
The 47th Samurai.
A fellow warrior, a Japanese SDF officer asks Bob Lee to help him find the cheap issued sword his father carried on Iwo Jima.
Bob's dad Earl may have had it, so Bob Lee tracks it down and returns it to the family.
Sleeping off a rare slip back into the bottle, Bob Lee awakens to find the entire family slaughtered and the sword gone.
Bob Lee's not a Japanese, but he understands Honor and Duty, and decides to set things right.
The authorities and the Japanese Yakuza mob don't want Bob Lee interfering, but that's never stopped a Swagger before.
This is one time guns won't help, so Bob Lee takes up the sword.