'Hunter is in the front rank of thriller novelists'
Stephen Hunter is the author of eleven novels, including Hot Springs, Pale Horse Coming, Black Light, Time to Hunt and Dirty White Boys. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
American hardboiled at its very best, full of taciturn and stoical
characters and plotting in explosive overdrive
*Times*
Up there with the likes of James Lee Burke and Michael Connelly at
the forefront of hard-boiled American crime fiction
*Glasgow Herald*
On the last day of his life, in July 1955, Arkansas State Trooper Earl Swagger discovered the strangled body of a dead black girl just before being gunned down by Jimmy Pye, a felon released earlier that day from prison. Forty years after these events, youthful journalist Russ Pewtie makes contact with Earl's son, a "professional shooter" named Bob Lee Swagger, in order to gather information on a book about Earl. Bob Lee returns home to rural Arkansas accompanied by Russ and encounters powerful and violent forces working against their investigation of the past, especially of the events on Earl's last day. Some characters in this work have been encountered in Hunter's two earlier novels, Point of Impact (Audio Reviews, LJ 5/15/93) and Dirty White Boys (LJ 11/15/94). Award-winning actor Beau Bridges uncannily conveys the intensity of the characters and fast-paced action while vocally portraying the essence of each cast member. Highly recommended for collections of thrillers.‘Kristen L. Smith, Loras Coll. Lib., Dubuque, Ia.
American hardboiled at its very best, full of taciturn and stoical
characters and plotting in explosive overdrive * Times *
Up there with the likes of James Lee Burke and Michael Connelly at
the forefront of hard-boiled American crime fiction * Glasgow
Herald *
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