Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter

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Trigerpulr

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I'm just wondering if anyone else has read this book? I was very impressed by the research that went in to it.

Really Really short plot summery:
Former sniper Bob lee swagger is framed for the murder of a cardinial and has to clear his name surprisingly by killin off his enemys (if he talked sternly to them it would not be that interesing :) ) By the end he clears his name, kills the bad guys and gets the girl(you got to expect it) but the trips worth it.

There is a lot of shooting relaeted information, magazines, companys, general gun knowledge stuff most writers never pay attention to, yes their are some stretches but its a novel. like i said I was very impressed that someone went to the trouble to acctualy research.
 
Great book, and I only found one shooting related error: Swagger compensates for a downhill shot by aiming HIGH!
If you like Bob Lee check out: 'Black Light' and 'Time To Hunt'.

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Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.
 
I liked 'The Day Before Midnight', I didn't care for 'The Spanish Gambit'(alternate title 'A Tapestry Of Spies' I think) though.

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Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.
 
I liked all of them well not the spanish gambit. Dirty white boys when he is carying three guns and needs them all. Now that is a bad day.
 
Good read. Too my mind, probably the best of his work. I went on a Steve Hunter reading spree after that (if that tells you anything).

"Dirty White Boys" has the most incredible twist, just kinda quietly related in there. Makes you think (again!) that perhaps exceptional men are born that way...
 
I think that Time to Hunt is his best. If you look closely, most of his books are related in one fashion or another by characters:
Time to Hunt, The Day Before Midnight: Col. Dick Puller is in both, as is Sally Memphis, who is in Point of Impact
Black Light, The Second Saladin: Paul Chardy and Frenchy Short, explains what Chardy told Swagger about his CIA time, explains Short, and the Pye clan, read Dirty White Boys for further
He has done a great job of tying in several unrelated characters over his books. Never read the Spanish Gambit, though.
 
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