The night belongs to the shooter who can see through it
Bob Lee Swagger has seen -- and delivered -- dozens of deaths.As a United States Marine sniper in Vietnam, his astonishing accuracy with a rifle earned him the nickname "Bob the Nailer;" twenty years later he was forced to kill again to unravel a brutal conspiracy. Now happily secluded with his wife and young daughter in the Arizona desert, Bob believes all the killing is behind him. Until a young writer, Russ Pewtie, arrives at his door with troubling questions about the past.
Forty years earlier, Swagger's father, a dedicated state trooper, was gunned down by two robbers in a sensational shoot-out just outside of Blue Eye, Arkansas. Faced with Russ' persistence and a desire to make peace with a father he never really knew, Swagger decides to discover what really happened that night long ago in Arkansas. But it soon becomes clear that powerful people don't want the truth uncovered -- and Swagger must use all his combat skills and ruthless cunning just to survive.
Like the infrared "black light" that exposes a sniper's target in the dead of night, Swagger homes in on the shadowy figures desperate to keep the secret of his father's murder buried. And with the relentless pace that is Stephen Hunter's trademark, Black Light accelerates to its exhilarating climax -- an explosion of gunfire that blasts open the secrets of two generations.
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Forty years ago, Bob Lee Swagger's father, a state trooper, was killed by two robbers in an Arkansas shoot-out. Now a young writer has arrived at Swagger's door with some penetrating and troubling questions. What really happened that long-ago Arkansas night? The powers that be don't want that question answered, but Swagger, to his surprise, finds that he does -- even if it means having to use his long-abandoned combat skills and cunning to find out. Like the infrared "black light" that exposes a sniper's target in the night, Swagger homes in on the shadowy figures desperate to keep the secret of his father's murder buried.
Only one thing stands between a son and his father's killer: forty years oflies..
On a remote Arizona ranch, a man who has known loss, fear, and war weeps forthe first time since he was a child. His tears are for the father taken fromhim four decades before in a deadly shoot-out. And his grief will lead himback to the place where he was born, where his father died, and where a brutalconspiracy 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 ofa young woman that day. By midnight Earl Swagger lay dead in a desertedcornfield.
Now Bob Lee wants answers. He wants to know the truth behind the shoot -outthat took his father's life, a mystery buried in forty years of lies. Becausefor 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 bestsellers Point ofImpact and Dirty White Boys, Stephen Hunter's gripping thrillerbuilds to an exhilarating climax--and an explosion of gunfire that blasts openthe secrets of two generations.
Copyright © 1996 by Stephen Hunter.
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