Posted on 05/20/2014 10:27:35 PM PDT by Rummyfan
We are huge fans of Stephen Hunter. Steve is of course the novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning former film critic of the Washington Post. Of Steve, Glenn Reynolds concisely holds: “Love him, and his books.”
Today is the official publication date of Steve’s incredibly timely Bob Lee Swagger thriller, Sniper’s Honor. Steve has graciously accepted our invitation to bring his new book to the attention of our readers from the perspective of the author himself. He writes:
I wish I could claim that shrewd analysis and a strategic worldview prompted me to place my new book, Sniper’s Honor, begun a year and a half ago, in Ukraine, on the fault line between Ukrainian aspirations toward nationhood and Russian aspirations toward domination. Alas, I must confess: it was dumb luck.
When I began the book, off a half-assed, rather childish outline all those months ago, no one knew that in May of 2014, Ukraine was going to be a sort of ground zero, not merely between Russia and Ukraine but also between Russia and the West. I only knew I wanted to tell a story of a brave Soviet woman sniper who was lost to history when “disappeared” after a failed mission in the fall of 1944, as the German army was retreating from its Russian catastrophe. Her fate is examined by Bob Lee Swagger, who learns early on that the past is not dead and buried in that part of the world. As he progresses in his investigation, people keep trying to kill him.
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Just bought the Kindle version, couldn’t wait for the paperback and don’t have the room for more books anyway. Thanks for posting the article.
YAY!!
Pre-ordered it from Amazon months ago. Waiting for it to come in the mail.
:)
Thanks for the notice. Love me some Bob Lee.
Thanks for the notice. Love me some Bob Lee.
I just put it on hold at my local library. I’m only 17th in line which is not bad at all. I’ve been up in the ~hundred and something~ waiting in the past for books by Hunter, Lee Child, Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, etc.
Unfortunately, many thriller authors and movie script writers totally bungle scenes with guns, writing totally stupid stuff like safeties on revolvers, because unlike Stephen Hunter, they have no actual, real-world experience with firearms.
For gun enthusiasts like me, bungled gun stuff in a novel, movie, or TV show is like fingernails on a chalkboard.
I know what I will be reading tonight: our friend Stephen Hunter.
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