Front Sight: Three Swagger Novellas

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A collection of three interconnected novellas that follow each generation of the iconic Swagger familygrandfather Charles, father Earl, and fan favorite hero Bob Leefrom New York Times bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and true master at the pinnacle of his craft (Jack Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Stephen Hunter.

In City of Meat, Charles Swagger is on the hunt for notorious bank robber Baby Face Nelson when he traces a tip to the Chicago stock yards. While there, hes brutally assaulted by a madman involved in a nearby narcotics ring. The ring plans to spread its new drug to the residents of the disenfranchised 7th District of Chicago and to make matters worse, this is no ordinary drugit makes some users happy, drives others insane, and kills many of the rest. Will Charles be able to stop the ring before its too late Or is he in over his head among the dark streets of Chicago

Earl Swagger investigates a violent bank robbery that left two dead and a fortune missing in small-town Maryland in Johnny Tuesday. At every turn, however, hes met with silence and hostility from the townsfolk, which makes sense when he uncovers municipal corruption, gang politics, jaded aristocrats, scheming gamblers, a hitman, a femme fatale, and a whole bunch of men with guns. Luckily, Earl has brought his own guns in this unputdownable noir mystery.

Finally, in Five Dolls for the Gut Hook, a thirty-two-year-old Bob Lee Swagger is back from Vietnam nearly broken over good men lost for nothing. Hes turned down that whiskey road to hell. But one afternoon hes awakened from his nightmares by two men with a problem. As nearby Hot Springs tries to retool its image from gambling paradise to family resort, a butcher has begun to prey on the citys young women, a figure straight out of a horror movie. Hot Springs Homicide is baffled and recruit Bobs help. Im a sniper, says Bob, not a detective.

But, comes the reply, you are the son and grandson of two of the greatest detectives this state has ever produced. On that premise alone, Bob takes up the hunt for a killer who not only kills but desecrates. At the same time, we understand that Bob Lee Swagger is also hunting for his own salvation.

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"Existing fans will be delighted by the amount of character development and action Hunter packs into these novellas, while new readers will find them a perfect entry point into the Swagger universe. Hunter is at the top of his game." * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *
"One of the best thriller novelists around." * The Washington Post *

Author Bio

Stephen Hunter has written over twenty novels. The retired chief film critic forThe Washington Post, where he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, he has also published two collections of film criticism and a nonfiction work,American Gunfight. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.