Оказывается я эту книгу ещё не читал, она сравнительно новая.И вполне неплохая.Правда Суэггер тут почти не проявляет себя. Да и снайперского экшна нету.Поэтому я бы дал этой книге на балл меньше, чем предыдущим.Но в целом прочиталось легко и увлекательно. This was one of Stephen Hunter's best boo...
From the marvellous 1st Bob Lee Swagger book Point Of Impact to this lacklustre effort that reads like a first (unedited) proof?One would have thought that after the strange fish-out-of-water exercise that was the 47th Samurai (that saw seasoned sniper and series regular Bob Lee Swagger stripped...
A crime thriller that is not too thrilling, really. The book begins with the prison shower room killing of an inmate by the antagonist, Lamar Pye. Lamar has to escape from prison because of the murder. According to Stephen Hunter, it's pretty easy to get out of a maximum security prison. Lamar, ...
This is the third of the Bob Lee Swagger books but for me it's the one I read last...I managed to skip it as I was reading them and had to come back and "pick it up". So, in a way here I'm looking at the entire run of Bob Lee Swagger books. All in all, pretty good action reads, some a bit better ...
As the Swagger novels have gone on the quality has declined. Which is a fairly common thing with all long running series. Be it novels, television, movies etc. "Pale Horse Coming" isn't one of Hunter's better novels, but there are aspects that I liked. As others have pointed out this is "Cool Han...
This is "just an airport novel" only in the sense that Die Hard (the first one) was "just another action movie." In other words, you have here a familiar genre and set-up (here, the "countdown to Armageddon") being taken to a peak level by expert craftsmanship.A large part of the book's success i...
বুক রিভিউপয়েন্ট অফ ইমপ্যাক্টস্টিফেন হান্টার/নাভিদ হোসেনবইটা পড়ার ইচ্ছা গত বইমেলায়ই ছিল, কিন্তু নানা কারণে তখন কেনা হয় নি। এবার বইমেলার প্রথম দিকে বাতিঘরের স্টলে ঢুঁ মেরে নতুন বইয়ের অভাবে পুরনো এটাই কিনে ফেলেছিলাম, আর গত রাতে বুঝলাম যে কাজটা একেবারেই খারাপ করি নি।বইটা থেকে একটা মুভি তৈরি হয়েছে হলি...
I'm sure that some will read this book and rate it lower than I have...there is a HUGE eye roll factor here in at least one way. I'll say this...do some mental exercise and beef up your "suspension of disbelief muscles". I like the Bob Lee Swagger character pretty well. However the Bob here isn't...
It is the spring of 1945, and the Nazis are eliminating all the witnesses to their horrible crimes, including Jews and foreigners remaining in the prison camps. Kommandant Repp, who is known as a master sniper, decides to hone his sniping abilities by taking a little target practice at the ...
In the windswept sands of the Middle East, Paul Chardy fought side by side with Ulu Beg: one, a charismatic, high-strung CIA covert warrior, the other a ferocious freedom fighter. Then Chardy fell into the hands of the enemy, and Beg was betrayed. Now the two men are about to meet again.Beg has c...
JULIAN SAID, “LILI WAS A RARE BEAUTY. HER father’s estate, near Breslau, had this wonderful hunting schloss, where the old brute went to shoot boar in the winter—and Lili and I had some exquisite weekends there. In the spring. Oh, it was wonderful.” Florry nodded enthusiastically. His breath was ...
First Day The Lysander took off in the pitch-dark of 0400 British Standard War Time, Pilot Officer Murphy using the prevailing south-southwest wind to gain atmospheric traction, even though the craft had a reputation for short takeoffs. He nudged it airborne, felt it surpass its amazingly low sta...
Moncada still bore signs of the gunfight waged there almost a week before, except that by now the burned cars had been removed and the shot-out windows boarded up. From there, they caught a cab to go back to the hotel.It was a time of much revelry, as if carnival had been extended magically. On a...
I suppose it doesn’t matter. I’d missed his brief encounter with the press Friday night, since I’d been ingloriously passed out. But I’d seen it on tape, as they had to fill the time when nothing was happening, and what I’d seen had seemed classical Alek. He was scruffy, as usual, hair a mess, an...
How a woman could have hair that red, maracas that melony, a waist that narrow, hips that round and legs that long was something on the level of the truly miraculous. Her lips were like strawberries, her eyes green and forever. Everywhere she went, it might as well be sparing. “Virginia, you look...