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The Third Bullet (Bob Lee Swagger #8) – Hardcover
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Bob Lee Swagger is back in a thriller fifty years in the making…
It’s not even a clue. It’s a whisper, a trace, a ghost echo, drifting down through the decades via chance connections so fragile that they would disintegrate in the puff of a breath. But it’s enough to get legendary former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger interested in the events of November 22, 1963, and the third bullet that so decisively ended the life of John F. Kennedy and set the stage for one of the most enduring controversies of our time.
Swagger begins his slow night stalk through a much-traveled landscape. But he’s asking questions that few have asked before: Why did the third bullet explode? Why did Lee Harvey Oswald, about to become the most hunted man on earth, risk it all by returning to his rooming house to secure a pistol he easily could have brought with him? How could a conspiracy that went unpenetrated for fifty years have been thrown together in the two and a half days between the announcement of the president’s route and the assassination itself?
As Bob investigates, another voice enters the narrative: knowing, ironic, almost familiar, that of a gifted, Yale-educated veteran of the CIA Plans Division. Hugh Meachum has secrets and the means and the will to keep them buried. When weighed against his own legacy, Swagger’s life is an insignificant expense—but to blunt the threat, he’ll first have to ambush the sniper.
As each man hunts the other across today’s globe and through the thickets of history, The Third Bullet builds to an explosive climax that will finally prove what Bob Lee Swagger has always known: it’s never too late for justice.
“Hunter is extremely well-versed on guns and ballistics, and Swagger is nothing short of a legend. . . . it’ll be catnip to conspiracy-minded readers . . . The whole thing ends with a shootout in rural Connecticut that’s so tense you’ll burn your dinner rather than stop reading.”
“Hunter’s action-packed new thriller, “The”Third Bullet” . . . introduces a shockingly plausible alternative to the Lee Harvey Oswald-‘lone gunman’ explanation.”
“Bestseller Hunter’s solid eighth thriller featuring master sniper Bob Lee Swagger . . . plunges into the byzantine world of conspiracy theory. Hunter develops some new angles on the JFK assassination.”
“Some of Hunter’s best writing can be found here, along with new revelations about Swagger . . . . Then, of course, there is the investigation into Kennedy’s death on that fateful day in Dallas and its conclusions. Hunter raises some thought-provoking questions, and while the ‘who’ in the equation may still be in doubt, the answers to the ‘what’ and ‘how’ may be contained in this work, which is labeled as ‘fiction’ but could be much more.”
“Former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger tackles the granddaddy of all conspiracy theories–the 1963 Kennedy assassination–in his latest adventure. . . . The author’s obsessive attention to the events of Nov. 22 yields a stunningly plausible theory that will have readers holding the book in one hand and Googling satellite photos of Dealey Plaza and the Texas School Book Depository with the other.”
“For nearly 50 years, the world has been obsessing over the assassination of JFK, from grassy knolls to magic bullets. Finally, though, there’s somebody on the case who likes to act more than talk: Bob Lee Swagger. . . . like Stephen King in “11/22/63″, Hunter has used the assassination to forge a terrific thriller.”
“Like an elite sniper, Stephen Hunter zeroes in on one of the most infamous shots ever fired and delivers a mind-bending thriller that answers the question ‘What if?’ in astonishingly plausible detail. “The Third Bullet” is his best Bob Lee Swagger thriller yet.”–Vince Flynn “#1 New York Times bestselling author of Kill Shot ”
“Stephen Hunter is the bullseye ace of the modern thriller, a cerebral mix of mystery, blood, brutality, treachery and suspense. “The Third Bullet” is Hunter at the absolute apex of his art. Come on–it’s time to hunt!”–Stephen Coonts “New York Times bestselling author of The Disciple ”
“The Swagger novel we’ve all been waiting for, and the Swagger novel Stephen Hunter was born to write . . . a magnificent thriller–and it might even be true.”–Lee Child “#1 New York Times bestselling author of A Wanted Man and The Affair ”
“”The Third Bullet” is as riveting as it is ambitious. It’s Stephen Hunter’s best so far.”–Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Drop and The Black Box
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Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter has written eighteen 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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