The Third Bullet: Bob Lee Swagger, Book 8 (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
It’s not even a clue. It’s a whisper, a trace, a ghost echo, drifting down through the decades via chance connections so fragile that they would disintegrate in the puff of a breath. But it’s enough to get legendary former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger interested in the events of November 22, 1963, and the third bullet that so decisively ended the life of John F. Kennedy and set the stage for one of the most enduring controversies of our time.
Swagger begins his slow night stalk through a much-traveled landscape. But he’s asking questions that few have asked before: Why did the third bullet explode? Why did Lee Harvey Oswald, about to become the most hunted man on Earth, risk it all by returning to his rooming house to secure a pistol he easily could have brought with him? How could a conspiracy that went unpenetrated for 50 years have been thrown together in the two and a half days between the announcement of the president’s route and the assassination itself?
As Bob investigates, another voice enters the narrative: knowing, ironic, almost familiar, that of a gifted, Yale-educated veteran of the CIA Plans Division. Hugh Meachum has secrets and the means and the will to keep them buried. When weighed against his own legacy, Swagger’s life is an insignificant expense - but to blunt the threat, he’ll first have to ambush the sniper.
As each man hunts the other across today’s globe and through the thickets of history, The Third Bullet builds to an explosive climax that will finally prove what Bob Lee Swagger has always known: It’s never too late for justice.
Customer Reviews
The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter is the master of this genre of novels. He brings to life the time and events surrounding the assassination of JFK and makes a very plausible theory of what could have happened the afternoon of 11-22-1963. Another author read the ARC version of this novel and stated "This is the book the Stephen Hunter was born to write". I agree completely with this statement. This is Mr. Hunter at his finest. Infused in this narrative is a sense of drama, intensity and great wit. There is some ironic humor and lyrics relavant to the times woven in with the seriousness of the event. This is a must read for anyone who first loves a great novel, second loves a great mystery and wants to follow it to it's end and last of all for anyone who has been enthralled with the mystery and conspiracies that surround the day that changed America forever. Thank you Stephen Hunter for bringing that day and the days that lead up to the fatefull moment to life. I love the second narrative that begins halfway through the book that allows you to see the events through the eyes of the person who thought of and organized the assasination. This is your best book to date. I hope that you have another Bob Lee Swagger book left in your writing.
I got you
This was so good it never slowed down waiting for the last book mid may. thank you
Couldn't take the WC perspective any more.
I enjoy most of Stephen Hunter's body of work. It's always delighted me that someone understands and writes about shooting, sniper life and mentality, etc. Thus it is terribly disappointing that, even to craft a novel, his research began and ended with the Warren report for this book. I did my best to put up with it, but the protracted soliloqueys, even of a demented fictional character, became too irritating to endure. I'd read the book previously, and thought that I could get through the audio version to pass time while driving. Not true. I put the work on the 'Fiction' shelf next to the WC report and Bugliosi...