Point of Impact

Hunter, Stephen

19.521 Bewertungen von Goodreads

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Bantam Books, New York, N.Y., 1993

0553563513 / 9780553563511

Serie: Buch 1 von 12 - Bob Lee Swagger

  • Softcover
  • Gebraucht
Alle Details anzeigen

Anbieter: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, USAGround Zero Books, Ltd.

Verkäufer/-in mit 5 Sternen

AbeBooks-Verkäufer/-in seit 14. August 1998

Softcover

Zustand: Gebraucht - Befriedigend

EUR 9,08

EUR 4,41 Versand 
Versand innerhalb von USA

Anzahl: 1 verfügbar

In den Warenkorb
30 Tage kostenlose Rückgabe

Artikelbeschreibung des Verkäufers

[14], 569, [9] pages. Some cover wear. Includes Acknowledgments. Bob Lee Swagger was one of the best Marine snipers in Vietnam. Now, twenty years later, disgruntled hero of an unheroic war, all Bob Lee Swagger wants is to be left alone and to leave the killing behind. But with consummate psychological skill, a shadowy military organization seduces Bob into leaving his beloved Arkansas hills for one last mission for his country, unaware until too late that the game is rigged. Stephen Hunter (born March 25, 1946) is an American novelist, essayist, and film critic. After graduating from Northwestern in 1968 with a degree in journalism, he joined The Baltimore Sun in 1971. He became its film critic in 1982, he held moved to The Washington Post as film critic in 1997. In 1998 Hunter won the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award and in 2003 the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Hunter's novels include Point of Impact, Black Light and Time to Hunt, which form a trilogy featuring sniper Bob "the Nailer" Swagger. The story of Bob Lee Swagger continued with The 47th Samurai, Night of Thunder, I, Sniper, Dead Zero, The Third Bullet, Sniper's Honor and G-Man. Hunter has written three nonfiction books: Violent Screen: A Critic's 13 Years on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem, a collection of essays from his time at The Sun; American Gunfight, an examination of the November 1, 1950, assassination attempt on Harry S. Truman at Blair House in Washington, D.C.; and Now Playing at the Valencia, a collection of pieces from The Washington Post. The combination of exciting action, technical lore. and skilled plot manipulation places this novel far ahead of others in its field. The tension of this thriller never lets up. Derived from a Kirkus review: Hunter returns to the sniper theme that made The Master Sniper a mesmerizing suspense debut. This is his best since then. Can one praise him for a fearless, warts-and-all rounded portrait of a master sniper from Arkansas, and even perhaps call Bob Lee Swagger a riveting hero bearing an unbearable burden? Swagger is a genius of the rifle with an encyclopedic background on manufacture and handcrafted ammo, possesses superhuman skill at weighing every conceivable possibility in yardage, windage, dampness, temperature, etc., and has the patience of a brass monkey for holding a position (sometimes for weeks) until his prey appears in the scope. His father won the Congressional Medal of Honor on Iwo Jima, and Bob should have won it as a Marine sniper in Vietnam, where he killed 87 men (confirmed, though actually many more) but was wounded by an even more skillful Russian sniper flown in especially to nail Bob. Now a stonyfaced recluse living in Arkansas' Ouchita Mountains, Bob is lured out of the hills by a phony outfit called RamDyne that wants him to stop that very same Russian from assassinating the President. Truth is, however, that Bob is being set up as the President's alleged lone assassin, an Oswald-like patsy in an incident scheduled for Louis Armstrong Park in New Orleans. When the real assassin fires and hits a prelate instead, Bob is shot by his phony team, escapes and finds himself wounded and on the lam, with his face on the covers of Time and Newsweek as the President's intended killer. Somehow he must track down the team that hired him. A whiz-bang-especially if you're ballistic on ballistics. Bantam Paperback Edition, Later printing.…

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 80626

Titel
Point of Impact
Autor
Hunter, Stephen
Verlag
Bantam Books, New York, N.Y.
Erscheinungsjahr
1993
Zustand
Good
Einband
Trade paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
0553563513
ISBN-13
9780553563511
Serie
Buch 1 von 12: Bob Lee Swagger

Ground Zero Books, Ltd.

Silver Spring, MD, USA

Verkäufer/-in mit 5 Sternen

AbeBooks-Verkäufer/-in seit 14. August 1998

Versandkosten innerhalb von USA

Artikel5 bis 20 Werktage3 bis 6 Werktage
Erster ArtikelEUR 4,41EUR 6,61
Die Versandzeiten werden von den Verkäuferinnen und Verkäufern festgelegt. Sie variieren je nach Versanddienstleister und Standort. Sendungen, die den Zoll passieren, können Verzögerungen unterliegen. Eventuell anfallende Abgaben oder Gebühren sind von der Käuferin bzw. dem Käufer zu tragen. Die Verkäuferin bzw. der Verkäufer kann Sie bezüglich zusätzlicher Versandkosten kontaktieren, um einen möglichen Anstieg der Versandkosten für Ihre Artikel auszugleichen.

Zahlungsarten

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Carte Bleue
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • PayPal
  • Rechnung
  • Vorauskasse
  • Zahlungsanweisung

Shopbeschreibung

Founded and operated by trained historians, Ground Zero Books, Ltd., serves the book collector, the scholar, and institutions. We focus on the individual, and pride ourselves on our personal service. Please contact us with your wants, as we have many books not yet listed in our database.

Spezialisierung

Military History, Nuclear, American Revolution, Military Medicine, Vietnam, World War II, British Empire, World War I, Unit Histories, Civil War

Unternehmensdaten der Verkäuferin bzw. des Verkäufers

Ground Zero Books, Ltd.

9033 Georgia Avenue
Silver Spring, MD USA 20910-2254