Point of Impact

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Summary: Truly Outstanding!
Review: Point of Impact combines the deadly art of military snipers, with the instructional firearms lore to great effect. Bob Lee Swagger is one of a kind, which is unfortunate in this day and age. I look forward to the sequel(Black Light), which should be arriving any day now, with great anticipation.

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Summary: excellent
Review: This is best of what I have read from Stephen Hunter to date. The material is pure entertainment as not much work was done regarding technical points. The story has some of the best and most credible villians I've found so far. I have loaned the book to a number of other people with rave reviews from all

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Summary: My first Stephen Hunter-I could not put it down!
Review: Point of Impact showed me that he was one of the best action writers to date. Steven Hunter does to the novel, what virtual reality does to the computer. He draws you in and won't let you go onto until the last page is turned. It would have got a 10 if I hadn't read Hunter's incredible Dirty White Boys.

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Summary: Great thriller, plenty of action and suspense
Review: Not a gun enthusiast, but found it engaging. You can see the ending coming, but it is still a GREAT RIDE

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Summary: Thrilling,thinking person's, action book
Review: A look into the silent inner world of a trained non-emotional LEGAL killer. Fascinating! Completely believable and thorough.

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Summary: Un-put-downable. Is this a word? I don't care, it fits.
Review: Every once in a while, I come across an author that writes with such power and authority that his/her writing leaves me breathless. Stephen Hunter is in this category. His trilogy of Point of Impact, Dirty White Boys, and Black Light portrait both good and evil with such intensity that they haunted me deeply. To call them "thrillers" is almost a disservice. My recommendation to readers is to have these books lined up in a row because you will want to read them all without pause

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Summary: a GREAT thriller
Review: I love this book! great characters, great action, great plot twists. I've pushed this book on others with uniformily good results.

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Summary: "It Don't Shoot"
Review: The greatest line in the book was "It Don't Shoot." For the sake of not spoiling things, I will not explain what that line means but you wlll have to read it toward the end.

This is my first Hunter novel and I was absolutely dumbfounded after reading it. Swagger is a very complex character who has a lot of ghosts from Viet Nam that still haunt him, especially the memory of his best friend getting killed by enemy fire. Swagger is one of the best snipers in the business and he is cajoled by a rogue group of secret government operatives into involving himself in an assassination plot. After the rogue operatives fail to kill him, he becomes a fugitive from justice and has to team up with a disgraced FBI agent to clear his name. Very tense thriller involving government coverups, trickery and constant grandstanding by the Asst Director of the FBI.

I could not put this one down. Hunter scores big with this one.

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Summary: If you are considering this, you have good taste in books.
Review: Not going to bore you with long review. It's a great read.... Why is it a great read you ask? Well... when you mix an Arkansas Vietnam Sniper Vet with a powerful and deadly rifle against uniformed thugs with serious issues... you got a winner. This book certainly is one.

This author, Stephen Hunter, is sooooooo good at writing about shooting that he will make you feel the actual trigger pull on your finger when reading this book.

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Summary: Well inside a minute of angle
Review: Gunnery Sergeant Bob Lee Swagger was a Marine Corps sniper in Vietnam, who had killed eighty-seven of the enemy (confirmed). Almost as many as the real-life Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, who had 93 confirmed kills. Both men used a Remington model 700 bolt-action rifle.

Sergeant Swagger was severely wounded, and his spotter killed, by an enemy sniper. His wounds resulted in his disability retirement, and eventual permanent retirement from the Marine Corps. The bad guys in this book, working on contract for a central American regime, seek to assassinate an influential cleric whose politics are antithetical to their own, when the President of the United States is due to honor him with a decoration in New Orleans.

Swagger is not aware of the actual plot, and when they tell him that the president is the subject of an assassination attempt, and want him to tell them where the assassin is most likely to strike, pretending to be CIA, he goes along. Little does he know that he is being set up to be the "fall guy," and that the president is not the real target.

This is a well-plotted thriller, and it will keep you reading until you've finished the book. The suspense is maintained, and there is enough accurate detail about firearms, ballistics, and technical details to make it all highly believable. I have ordered another of Stephen Hunter's titles. If he does as well with the next as he did with this one, I'm hooked.

To make the story even more interesting, for me, Swagger, in the story, has a pre-'64 Winchester model 70 ("the rifleman's rifle") in .300 Holland & Holland (H&H) magnum caliber. I have one of the same rifles, in the same caliber, and it, too, will shoot sub-minute-of-angle.

This is a good book, written by one who has researched his subject.

Joseph (Joe) Pierre
author of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance
and other books