A smooth talking Chicago lawyer has come to chat with Sam Vincent, a former prosecutor, about a dangerous unknown - a prison for violent black convicts in Thebes, Mississippi, a place of many questions but no answers. Would Sam, a white man and a Southener, be willing to investigate?
A fast-paced, highly-charged thriller featuring former Marine Corps sniper, Bob Lee Swagger
Lamar Pye breaks out of a top security prison in Oklahoma with two companions. With nothing to lose, he starts a violent trail of multiple murders. The partner of one of those killed, a Highway Patrol Officer, swears revenge on the murderers, and finally faces his man deep in the Oklahoma badlands.
Bob Lee Swagger, one of the deadliest snipers the US has ever produced, has put most of the demons of his past behind him, but not the forty-year-old killing of his father in a sensational shoot out. As the two circle each other they close, inevitably, to a final explosive confrontation that will blast the secrets of two generations wide open. schovat popis
Děj románu se odehrává na konci 2. světové války. Spojenecké tajné služby pátrají po elitním německém střelci, který má za pomoci nové vysoce účinné zbraně zlikvidovat svědky nacistických zločinů. Je jaro roku 1945 a nacisté eliminují svědky svých zločinů - což je excelentní příležitost pro komandanta Reppa, jak vyzkoušet střelbu na cíl s použitím otrockých dělníků. Repp je elitní střelec, jehož smrtící talent upoutá pozornost britské špionáže jako klíčový bod zoufalého nacistického spiknutí za účelem zvrácení výsledků druhé světové války v hodině dvanácté. Ale jaká je povaha zbraně, kterou Repp hodlá mířit - a kdo je jeho posledním cílem? Leets a Outhwaite ze spojenecké špionáže jsou vysláni, aby identifikovali a znemožnili jeho smrtící misi. A zatímco se dobírají pravdy, nejvražednější závod s časem druhé světové války je tady.
Another action-packed thriller from Stephen Hunter, this time starring Ray Cruz, the son of ex-Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, who was introduced in Hunter’s previous bestseller, Dead Zero. Ten thousand people jam the aisles, the corridors, the elevators, and the escalators of America, the Mall—a giant Rubik’s Cube of a structure with its own amusement park located in the spacious center atrium. Of those people, 9,988 have come to shop. The other twelve have come to kill. Ray Cruz, one of the heroes of Hunter’s last bestseller, Dead Zero, is in the mall with his fiancée and her family. The retired Marine sniper thought he was done with stalking and killing—but among the trapped thousands, he’s the only one with a plan and the guts to confront the self-proclaimed “Brigade Mumbai.” Now all he needs is a gun.
Swagger becomes interested in exploring JFK's assassination, asking questions few have asked before.
Bob Lee Swagger, někdejší mariňácký snajpr a legenda války ve Vietnamu, byl najat FBI, aby vystopoval jiného mariňáckého snajpra, který údajně zemřel v Afghánistánu při plnění důležité tajné mise. Ten se však vrátil do Spojených států vysledovat afghánského politika označeného CIA jako „náš budoucí muž v Kábulu“. Bob záhy zjišťuje, že není sám, kdo hledá seržanta Raye Cruze, přezdívaného „Řízená střela“. Otázkou zůstává: Kdo Raye Cruze najde a co všechno onen muž ví?
“A harsh, visceral, novel of conspiracy and betrayal . . . a distrubing mix that plays on our sense of history while at the same time it appeals to our darkest fantasies of rough justice.”—Chicago Tribune The inspiration for the USA Network series Shooter He was one the best Marine snipers in Vietnam. Today, twenty years later, disgruntled hero of an unheroic war, all Bob Lee Swagger wants 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. The assassination plot is executed to perfection—until Bob Lee Swagger, alleged lone gunman, comes out of the operation alive, the target of a nationwide manhunt, his only allies a woman he just met and a discredited FBI agent. Now Bob Lee Swagger is on the run, using his lethal skills once more—but this time to track down the men who set him up and to break a dark conspiracy aimed at the very heart of America.
Twenty-five years after the end of the Vietnam War, Bob, 'the Nailer' Swagger is back in the warzone. Is it simply revenge, or does it go back further, to a dirty secret buried buried in the extraordinary times of the late sixties when ideologies clashed and America's bitter war was reaching its height?
