Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Any Stephen Hunter/Bob Lee Swagger Fans Out There?

Via Massad Ayoob, a pre-publication review of Stephen Hunter's new novel I, Sniper:

Suppose that someone murdered lefty icons such as Jane Fonda, Bernardine Dohrn, and Bill Ayers with a high-powered rifle from long distance. Suppose the quintessential Marine Sniper, Carlos Hathcock, was still alive and framed for the murders, then murdered himself?
And suppose Bob Lee Swagger joined up with real-life Marine sniper Chuck Mawhinney to right the wrong?
And suppose it all wrapped up to the tune of Marty Robbins’ classic cowboy ballad, “Big Iron”?

That’s what you’re looking at in the latest novel in Hunter’s series, “I, Sniper.”


Oh, man that plot sounds almost like it would qualify as gun porn or political porn to the typical gun-owning red-stater.

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