Black Light Bob Lee Swagger Book 2 (Audible Audio Edition) Stephen Hunter Jon Lindstrom Random House Audio Books
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Only one thing stands between a son and his father's killer 40 years of lies..
On a remote Arizona ranch, a man who has known loss, fear, and war weeps for the first time since he was a child. His tears are for the father taken from him four decades before in a deadly shoot-out. And his grief will lead him back to the place where he was born, where his father died, and where a brutal conspiracy is about to explode.
For Bob Lee Swagger, the world changed on that hot day in Blue Eye, Arkansas, when two local boys rode armed and wild in a '55 Fairlane convertible. Swagger's father, Earl, a state trooper, was investigating the brutal murder of a young woman that day. By midnight Earl Swagger lay dead in a deserted cornfield.
Now Bob Lee wants answers. He wants to know the truth behind the shoot-out that took his father's life, a mystery buried in 40 years of lies. Because for Bob Lee Swagger, the killing didn't end that day in Blue Eye, Arkansas. The killing had just begun....
Weaving together characters from his national best sellers Point of Impact and Dirty White Boys, Stephen Hunter's gripping thriller builds to an exhilarating climax - and an explosion of gunfire that blasts open the secrets of two generations.
Black Light Bob Lee Swagger Book 2 (Audible Audio Edition) Stephen Hunter Jon Lindstrom Random House Audio Books
Read my review on "Point of Impact". You have to read all four books (Point of Impact, Dirty White Boys, Black Light and Time to Hunt) and I personally enjoyed this one and Time to Hunt the best. But to make clear the different relationships, you need to read ALL Four and I thought the books ought to have been re-arranged in order to make for a more chronological order of events, various characters, et alThese stories remind me those by Vince Flynn, David Baldacci's "Hit Men" series, but only in the "Sniper", "old boy from Arkansas" mode. Great Action, and if you aren't turned off by the graphic detail on various weapons by the author, you will love these books.
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Black Light Bob Lee Swagger Book 2 (Audible Audio Edition) Stephen Hunter Jon Lindstrom Random House Audio Books Reviews
I've found all of Hunter's books to be top-notch. However, in the first half of this one, he seamlessly slips back and forth between the lives of Bob Lee Swagger and his father Earl Swagger, half a century apart, with a frequency that makes it easy to misappropriate the time frame of all the other characters and their deeds. Further, a half-dozen other father-son stories and additional characters, similarly separated in time, are also seamlessly intermixed. All this causes considerable confusion. Reading this book using a with its search capability is highly recommended. In any event, it's a very good novel but requires a nontrivial effort by the reader to sort it all out. (And I don't have dementia, but neither do I have an eidetic memory!)
I found the second half of the book somewhat easier to follow, either because it was indeed easier or because I had done sufficient sorting out in the first half. However, the two main plots of the book, Bobby Lee's investigations of his father Earl's killing and both Earl and Bobby's investigation of a woman's murder occurring shortly before Earl's death, continue to be entangled with several subplots also occurring in both eras. The interweaving of these subplots with the main two plots, all of them present in both timeframes, continues to challenge the reader.
This obfuscation hampers Hunter's usually superb, action-packed writing, making this book considerably more complicated than the others in Hunter's highly entertaining "Bob Lee Swagger" series. And, because of these difficulties, I'll have to give this one 3 instead of 5 stars.
Some negative reviews have called 'Black Light' predictable, racist and violent. Yeah, what's your point? Look, this is a book in Stephen Hunter's 'Bob Lee Swagger' series. Swagger is an ex-Marine sniper in the south. He hunts bad guys. Violent? I should HOPE so!
In Black Light, Hunter's hero--Bob Lee Swagger-- is helping the search for clues regarding his father's death. (His father is ANOTHER S. Hunter major character, Earl Swagger). This journey bounces the reader from 1955 to the 1990s effortlessly, telling two stories at once and builds an excellent little mystery while keeping action junkies on the edge of their kindle.
As he so often does, and does so well, Hunter reprises characters from past novels. It's like running into old friends (or enemies, as the case may be), but knowing these recurring characters is NOT a prerequisite for enjoying any of the Hunter novels.
The plot? It's the 1990s, and a young reporter sets out to find who, back in 1955, murdered Arkansas State Trooper (and national celebrity) Earl Swagger. And WHY? The would-be author enlists the help of Earl's son Bob Lee, and from there... the action doesn't stop until the last page.
At the risk of sounding sexist, this IS a "guys book." It has guns (lots of them), violence and much bloodshed. And, yes, it IS as predictable as any action novel or film. But is that always bad? The PLOT isn't predictable, there were plenty of twists and turns. But the genre itself is surely lends itself to predictability.
One negative review called Black Light "racist." It isn't. It might upset our sensibilities to hear even the good guys use racist language from the 1950s, but that's just the REALITY of the times, location and the folks with whom we are dealing.
Can't deny it...I thoroughly enjoyed this Bob Lee Swagger outing. But then, I've enjoyed all the adventures Hunter has taken me on. If you're a first time Stephen Hunter reader, many will recommend "Point of Impact", but I started with Hunter's 'stand alone' novel "Dirty White Boys"...which, as it turns out, is more tied into Bob and Earl Swagger than meets the eye.
Predictable, violent, down and dirty. Stephen Hunter may not be great literature, but he can write some damned entertaining books that men will love.
Hunter has created a human superhero in retired Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger. Lots of detailed sniper tech adds to the foundation of the book. I found this one somewhat on the edge of plausibility, but the writing is tight and skilled and the plot moves with increasing speed to a real twist of an ending.
Another Stephen Hunter with Swagger in as much as a source of sniper information is one I would give 6 out of 5 stars "Snipers Honor."
Read my review on "Point of Impact". You have to read all four books (Point of Impact, Dirty White Boys, Black Light and Time to Hunt) and I personally enjoyed this one and Time to Hunt the best. But to make clear the different relationships, you need to read ALL Four and I thought the books ought to have been re-arranged in order to make for a more chronological order of events, various characters, et al
These stories remind me those by Vince Flynn, David Baldacci's "Hit Men" series, but only in the "Sniper", "old boy from Arkansas" mode. Great Action, and if you aren't turned off by the graphic detail on various weapons by the author, you will love these books.
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