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    Time to Hunt: Bob Lee Swagger
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    Time to Hunt: Bob Lee Swagger

    Written by Stephen Hunter

    Narrated by Beau Bridges

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 5, 2000
    ISBN9780553751123
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    Time to Hunt: Bob Lee Swagger
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    Stephen Hunter

    Stephen Hunter has written over 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. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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    • 5/5
      Another Bob Lee Swagger book and a super one. I love books about snipers and sniping, fiction or fact, and I love Bob Lee. You might have seen the Mark Wallenberg movie 'Point of Impact' which did a decent job of a Swagger book - the book was better.Bob Lee was (and for part of this book is) a Marine sniper. The author describes him as 'the looks of Clint Eastwood and the voice of Gomer Pyle' - cute but Bob Lee has a laconic drawl which is quite unlike Gomer. This book starts in the days of the Vietnam War protests in Washingon, DC which had me wondering and not too engaged but this is essential for the book. It also fills in some of the blanks for us Bob Lee fans. The rest of the book is split between Vietnam and the US - Oregon and the DC area. Ironically, the Vietnam part is located in Da Nang, Hoi An, and Kham Duc - all places we'll be visiting next March! The Kham Duc part is what made Bob Lee the legend he became and fill in essential blanks in other books.The ending could have been better for me but didn't really detract.
    • 4/5
      More back story - time in vietnam, his famous sniper attacks and sniper duel, pretty well told. I enjoyed the history part (inevitably sad, but well told). The modern day events were a bit of a stretch, plot wise.
    • 5/5
      "Time to Hunt" brings Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger and idealistic Marine, Donnie Fenn, together.The first part of the story details how Fenn was given an assignment to Viet Nam, even though he only had about a year to go on his enlistment. He was given this punishment because he wouldn't betray another Marine who was in contact with the peace marchers in Washington, D. C.In Viet Nam, the two men team up and cause such havoc to the Viet Cong that the VC ask their Russian advosor for help. The advisor is able to identify Swagger by the weapon the sniper uses and his choice of ammunition. It turns out that Swagger had been in competition against the Russian and beat the Russian. Now this man is sent into the field against Swagger to try to eliminate him and his spotter, Donnie.As the plot moves swiftly from Viet Nam to Swagger's home on a farm in Iowa, I was so caught up in the plot and drama that I was almost spellbound. The author has given an excellent story with a number of plot twists that left me shaking my head. Needless to say, nothing was as it seemed.The novel is a good example of why the author is considered one of the top thriller writers in America. The plot is unique and Swagger is a great character and true hero.Highly recommended.