Bøger af Stephen Hunter

From bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter comes three interconnected novellas following each generation of Swaggers: grandfather Charles, father Earl, and the iconic series hero Bob Lee.

"In 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. Will Charles be able to stop the ring before it's too late? Earl Swagger investigates a violent bank robbery in Johnny Tuesday that left two dead and a fortune missing in small-town Maryland. At every turn, however, he's met with silence and hostility from the townsfolk, which makes sense when he uncovers municipal corruption, working-class exploitation, gang politics, jaded aristocrats, scheming gamblers, a hitman, a femme fatale, and a whole bunch of men with guns. Luckily, Earl has brought his own guns in this unputdownable noir mystery. Finally, in Five Dolls for the Gut Hook, a thirty-two-year-old Bob Lee Swagger is back from Vietnam nearly broken over good men lost for nothing. He's turned hard down that whiskey road to hell. But one afternoon he's wakened from his nightmares by two men with a problem. Using his sniper's mind, Swagger is able to see things others have missed, drawing ever closer to a showdown. But equally, we understand, Bob Lee Swagger is hunting his own salvation."--

Novelized recordation of a real trip that Dad and his two children took one lazy hot summer day to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

The long-anticipated origin story of legendary Marine, fan favorite, and father of literary icon Bob Lee takes us to the battlefields of World War II as Earl Swagger embarks on a top secret and deadly mission--from Pulitzer Prize--winning and New York Times bestselling Stephen Hunter, "one of the best thriller novelists around" (The Washington Post). 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. Enter Pacific hero Earl Swagger, assigned this crucial and bloody mission. With crosshairs on his back, Swagger can't trust anyone as he infiltrates the shadowy corners of London and France for answers. From "a true master at the pinnacle of his craft" (Jack Carr, author of the Terminal List series), The Bullet Garden is an electrifying historical thriller that is sure to become a classic.

From bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter comes three interconnected novellas following each generation of Swaggers: grandfather Charles, father Earl, and the iconic series hero Bob Lee.

Another action-packed thriller from Stephen Hunter, this time starring Ray Cruz, the son of ex-Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, who was introduced in Hunter's previous bestseller, Dead Zero.Ten thousand people jam the aisles, the corridors, the elevators, and the escalators of America, the Malla giant Rubik's Cube of a structure with its own amusement park located in the spacious center atrium. Of those people, 9,988 have come to shop. The other twelve have come to kill. Ray Cruz, one of the heroes of Hunter's last bestseller, Dead Zero, is in the mall with his fiance and her family. The retired Marine sniper thought he was done with stalking and killingbut among the trapped thousands, he's the only one with a plan and the guts to confront the self-proclaimed ';Brigade Mumbai.' Now all he needs is a gun.

Includes an excerpt from The third note.

Reilly enlists former marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger to parse out the scarce details of Mili's military service. The more Swagger learns about Mili's last mission, the more he's convinced her disappearance was no accidentbut why would the Russian government go to such lengths to erase the existence of one of their own decorated soldiers? And why, when Swagger joins Kathy Reilly on a research trip, is someone trying to kill them before they can find out?

New York Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter was "back at the top of his game" (Publishers Weekly) with I, Sniper. And in DEAD ZERO Hunter kicks it up another notch, as Bob Lee Swagger must track down an AWOL Marine sniper hell-bent on completing his last mission.

Originally penned for "The Washington Post," Hunter's Pulitzer Prize-winning essays on the movies are gathered for this collection, organized by genre, that pays homage to the lost art of filmmaking--when movies were meant to be fun.

"A breathtaking, fascinating look at what could happen-given the possibility of an atomic 'given.' A wrap-up you'll never forget."-Robert LudlumThe 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

Baltimore Sun movie critic Stephen Hunter takes aim at 13 years (1981-94) of popular movies, from film noir to teenage slashers, gangster flicks to sci-fi pics, and examines the current, and often violent, culture of modern cinema. Organized by topic, this book is a fascinating chronicle of today's increasingly violent and alienating culture.

Bob Swagger er en tidligere marinesoldat. En dag blir han beskutt mens han er ute og rir sammen med kona og dattera, og han vet at han må beskytte dem mot den ene skytteren i verden som er like god som han selv.

A daredevil British agent goes behind enemy lines to search for a religious text that might hold the key to ending the Second World War.

Basil St. Florian is an accomplished agent in the British Army, tasked with dozens of dangerous missions for crown and country across the globe. But his current mission, going undercover in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, might be his toughest assignment yet. He will be searching for an ecclesiastic manuscript that doesn't officially exist, one that genius professor Alan Turing believes may hold the key to a code that could prevent the death of millions and possibly even end the war.St. Florian isn't the classic British special agent with a stiff upper lip-he is a swashbuckling, whisky-drinking cynic and thrill-seeker who resents having to leave Vivien Leigh's bed to set out on his crucial mission. Despite these proclivities, though, Basil's Army superiors know he's the best man for the job, carrying out his espionage with enough charm and quick wit to make any of his subjects lower their guards.Action-packed and bursting with WWII-era intrigue (much of which has basis in fact), Basil's War is a classic espionage thriller from Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, essayist, and bestselling novelist Stephen Hunter.