By Stephen Hunter
4 famed '60s radicals are gunned down at lengthy diversity via a sniper. below huge, immense media scrutiny, the FBI speedy concludes that Marine warfare hero Carl Hitchcock, whose ninety-three kills have been thought of the best physique count number tally between American marksman in Vietnam, used to be the shooter. yet because the Bureau, led by means of detailed Agent Nick Memphis, bears down, Hitchcock commits suicide. In last out the research, Nick discovers a case made in heaven: every thing suits, from timeline, ballistics, and forensics to intent, potential, and chance. perhaps it is a little too perfect.Nick asks his good friend, the retired Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, to check the information. utilizing a ability set no different guy on the earth possesses, Swagger quickly discovers unseen anomalies and steadily starts off to solve a cosmopolitan conspiracy -- one who will require the top point of warcraft by means of the main marvelous precise operations pros. As Swagger penetrates the private secrets and techniques of the sniper international and its new know-how, Nick stands enterprise within the face of hardball PR tasks and an infected media calling for his ouster.Swagger quickly closes in, and people accountable will cease at not anything to take him out. yet those seriously armed males make the error of considering they're searching Bob, while he's, in reality, searching them.I, Sniper will fulfill Stephen Hunter's legions of fanatics and win him droves of recent ones with its signature mixture of amazing plotting, bright characters, razor-sharp discussion, and striking gunfights. And while Swagger and the final of his antagonists ultimately face one another, reenacting a vintage ritual of fingers, it truly is transparent that every now and then there is not anything extra helpful than a very good guy with a gun and the center to take advantage of it.
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Jean Chandler. Take Special Agent Chandler, Ron. Run her hard, treat her unfairly, call her by her last name, overwork her, don't let her call her husband- No husband, Chandler said, blankly. boyfriend, who's probably a linebacker for the Redskins, and see if she comes up smiling. Maybe she's a keeper, maybe not. We'll see. Chandler smiled; Nick was famous for his needling, joshing style with the younger people. Nick said, You make sure I know you know this, but they pay me to point out the obvious you make sure the legal paperwork is perfect before you move; you don't ransack; you show utmost respect to this old duffer if he's around; you document everything, okay?
It wasn't long before the police arrived and set up crime scene operations, and not long at all after that when the first of what would become more than three hundred reporters and photographers arrived on scene and the whole two blocks of downtown East Hampton took on an aspect that resembled none of Joan Flanders's twenty-eight films but vividly recalled those made by an Italian gentleman named Federico Fellini. In all that, no one noticed a blue Ford van pulling out of an alley 340 yards away to begin a trip to another destination and another date with history.
But now it turns out he wasn't the champion. There was another fellow, a few years earlier, killed more bad guys. ' 'I feel like I've been living a lie,' Carl said. Anyhow, Mavis dies, Carl is all broken up, and the sister has to go back to Hendrix and her own life, but she tries to keep in touch. Several times she calls, he's too drunk to talk. Sometimes he himself calls, drunk. One day he breaks a hip and that takes a hell of a lot out of him. Then he just stopped answering the phone. Now this, and she wonders, could Carl .