Pale Horse Coming - Hardcover

Hunter, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684863618 ISBN 13: 9780684863610

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2001

Synopsis

In 1951, the disappearance of Sam Vincent, a former prosecutor assigned to investigate a prison for violent African-American convicts in Thebes, Mississippi, draws his old friend Earl Swagger into a dangerous confrontation with a town that guards itself from strangers with a private army of brutal, Klan-type thugs and rednecks. 125,000 first printing.

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Review:

Medal of Honor winner Earl Swagger returns in a hard-hitting sequel to Stephen Hunter's best-selling Hot Springs, this time compelled by duty and friendship to follow his best friend, former Arkansas prosecutor Sam Vincent, to the most dangerous place in Mississippi. Sam has gone to Thebes, a prison for violent African American criminals, on a mission for a client. What he finds there is not only a travesty of justice, but a place where the inhumanity of the jailers is matched by the horrific secret research being carried out on helpless prisoners. Captured and tortured himself, Earl manages to escape, but in short order he's back, along with a hand-picked posse of aging sharpshooters who are eager to prove they've still got what it takes. They're also as intent as Earl is on unmasking the conspiracy and destroying the real criminals. Bloody, bullet-ridden, and brilliantly paced, this is Hunter at his explosive best. --Jane Adams

About the Author:

Bestselling author Stephen Hunter, film critic for The Washington Post and winner of the American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for Distinguished Writing in Criticism (1998), has written ten novels, including Hot Springs, Time to Hunt, Black Light, Dirty White Boys, The Day Before Midnight, and Point of Impact.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0684863618
• ISBN 13: 9780684863610
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496