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"From bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter, the latest episode in his Swagger family saga--replete with Hunter's wicked suspense, vivid gun fights, and historical truths. 1934 was a pivotal year in the ongoing battle between the FBI and America's most famous outlaws--it was a year of giant personalities and huge shoot-outs, and it marked the deaths of John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, and Pretty Boy Floyd, among others. But...
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Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 1
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He was one of the best Marine snipers in Vietnam. Today all he wants is to be left alone and to leave the killing behind.
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Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 11
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Lance Corporal Thomas McDowell's mother has spent the years since his death in 2003 risking all that she has to find the sniper who pulled the trigger. She comes to Bob Lee Swagger as a last resort. He'll do everything in his power to help her, but what begins as a favor becomes an obsession. Now Swagger is teaming up with the Mossad, the FBI, and local American law enforcement as he tracks a sniper who is his own equal. The ruthless killer seems...
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2022.
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fter his successful takedown of a dangerous terrorist, Bob Lee Swagger learns that no good deed goes unpunished. Summoned to court by the United States Congress, Swagger is accused of reckless endangerment by a hardheaded anti-gun congresswoman. But what begins as political posturing soon turns deadly when the auditorium where the committee is being held is attacked.
Swagger, the congresswoman, and numerous bystanders and reporters are taken hostage...
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"July, 1944: The lush, rolling hills of Normandy are dotted with a new feature - German snipers. From their vantage points, they pick off hundreds of Allied soldiers every day, bringing the D-Day invasion to its knees. It's clear that someone is tipping off these snipers with the locations of American GIs, but who? And how? General Eisenhower demands his intelligence service to find the best shot in the Allied military to counter this deadly SS operation....
9) Black light
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Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 2
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1996.
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An Arkansas highway patrolman investigates the death years earlier of his father, also a policeman. Officer Bob Lee Swagger is put up to it by a young journalist who wants to write a book on Swagger's father. When the two are caught in a professionally organized ambush on a highway, they realize they are onto something. By the author of Point of Impact.
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Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 7
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From New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter comes a thriller that plunges deep into the world of high-tech national security, the hearts and minds of those who kill for duty, and the latest mission for veteran sniper Bob Lee Swagger- who may have finally met the only man who can outshoot him.
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Four famed '60s radicals are gunned down at long range by a sniper. Under enormous media scrutiny, the FBI quickly concludes that Marine war hero Carl Hitchcock, whose ninety-three kills were considered the leading body count tally among American marksman in Vietnam, was the shooter. But as the Bureau, led by Special Agent Nick Memphis, bears down, Hitchcock commits suicide. In closing out the investigation, Nick discovers a case made in heaven: everything...
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Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 4
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"Bob Lee Swagger and Philip Yano are bound together by a single moment at Iwo Jima, 1945, when their fathers, two brave fighters on opposite sides, met in the bloody and chaotic battle for the island. Only Earl Swagger survived." "More than sixty years later, Yano comes to America to honor the legacy of his heroic father by recovering the sword he used in the battle. His search has led him to Crazy Horse, Idaho, where Bob Lee, ex-marine and Vietnam...
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Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 3
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[1998]
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Two snipers from the Vietnam War--one Russian, the other American--resume their duel in the mountains of Idaho. Round two opens when ex-Marine Bob Swagger and his wife are wounded by rifle fire.
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Earl Swagger novels volume 1
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Plagued by the memory of his abusive father, apprehensive about his own impending parenthood, Earl Swagger is a decorated ex-Marine of absolute integrity, and overwhelming melancholy. Now he's about to face his biggest, bloodiest challenge yet. It is the summer of 1946, organized crime's garish golden age, when American justice seems to have gone to seed for good. When the district attorney vows to bring down the mob, Earl is recruited to run the...
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Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 9
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2014.
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Washington Post correspondent Kathy Reilly taps her friend, former marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, to find information on a Mili Petrova, a World War II female sniper in Stalin's Army. As they travel to Russia and the Carpathian Mountains, in the belief that Mili's disappearance was no accident, someone is determined to stop them at any cost.
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Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 5
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2008
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Near the start of Hunter's cartoonish fifth Bob Lee Swagger thriller (after The 47th Samurai), Nikki Swagger, the series hero's journalist daughter, is seriously injured when a hit man runs her car off the road in Tennessee hill country. Despite Swagger's fears that the legion of enemies he's made over the years are responsible for the attack, the former marine leaves Nikki vulnerable to another attempt on her life in the hospital where she's being...
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2024.
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In the City of Meat, Charles Swagger is on the hunt for notorious bank robber Baby Face Nelson when he traces a tip to the Chicago stock yards. While there, he's brutally assaulted and discovers that the madman who attacked him is involved in a nearby narcotics ring with plans to spread its new drug to the residents of the disenfranchised 7th District of Chicago. Worse, this is no ordinary drug, it makes some users happy, drives others insane, and...