Time to Hunt - Softcover

Hunter, Stephen

4.29

10,990 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099255995 ISBN 13: 9780099255994

Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd, 1999

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Sent to Vietnam, Donny partners Bob Lee Swagger, one of the most accomplished snipers in the US armed forces. The Sniper King, a Russian, is trailing them; Donny cannot understand why, but the final showdown will be in the USA, not Vietnam.

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Review:

After a literally explosive opening where sniper fire cuts through the chest of an unnamed victim (Swagger?), readers of Time to Hunt are plunged into the final years of the Vietnam War and the struggles of Marine Donny Fenn. Stationed in Washington D.C., after recovering from a nearly mortal wound, Fenn is asked to spy on Marines who may have ties to the peace movement. What Donny quickly learns, however, is that his Navy superiors are more interested in framing somebody than they are in finding the truth. In this first section, readers waiting to discover the outcome of the assassination and glimpse Bob "The Nailer" Swagger will instead be swept away by Hunter's vivid painting of the divided loyalties and torn identities that plagued soldiers and citizens in the early 1970s.

But all of this action is only a prelude to Donny's subsequent relationship with Swagger in Vietnam. Hunter fleshes out the mythology that he began to create in Point of Impact as readers watch Swagger add to his famed body count and confront his nemesis, Solaratov. Hunter moves deftly from the mind of Solaratov to Donny and back to Swagger, and in each character finds the core of the Vietnam experience--fear, coldness, sadness, horror, elation. The last two sections cut to contemporary events and find Swagger married to Donny's former love, Julie. Slowly, the events of the first half of the book begin to merge with Swagger's present history and stories that readers will recognize from Hunter's earlier novels. Swagger uncovers a deep connection between the Vietnam demonstrations of the 1970s, the predatory work of the CIA, and the killer who is after him and his family now. Nothing is as it first seems, and readers of Point of Impact and Black Light will have to revise all their expectations. --Patrick O'Kelley

Review:

" Stephen Hunter is in a class by himself. "Time to Hunt" is as vivid and haunting as a moving target in the crosshairs of a sniper scope."
--Nelson Demille, author of "Mayday"
" Stephen Hunter is simply the best writer of action fiction in the world and "Time to Hunt" proves it."
--Phillip Margolin, author of "The Burning Man"
" The best straight-up thriller writer at work today."
"--Rocky Mountain News"
" Thrilling in the manner of ancient storytellers, with battles fierce enough for a war and characters crazy enough to fight them to the death."
"--New York Times Book Review"

"From the Hardcover edition."

"Stephen Hunter is in a class by himself. "Time to Hunt" is as vivid and haunting as a moving target in the crosshairs of a sniper scope."
--Nelson Demille, author of "Mayday"
"Stephen Hunter is simply the best writer of action fiction in the world and "Time to Hunt" proves it."
--Phillip Margolin, author of "The Burning Man"
"The best straight-up thriller writer at work today."
"--Rocky Mountain News"
"Thrilling in the manner of ancient storytellers, with battles fierce enough for a war and characters crazy enough to fight them to the death."
"--New York Times Book Review"

"From the Hardcover edition."

"Stephen Hunter is in a class by himself."Time to Hunt" is as vivid and haunting as a moving target in the crosshairs of a sniper scope."
--Nelson Demille, author of "Mayday"
"Stephen Hunter is simply the best writer of action fiction in the world and "Time to Hunt" proves it."
--Phillip Margolin, author of "The Burning Man"
"The best straight-up thriller writer at work today."
"--Rocky Mountain News"
"Thrilling in the manner of ancient storytellers, with battles fierce enough for a war and characters crazy enough to fight them to the death."
"--New York Times Book Review"

"From the Hardcover edition.""

"Stephen Hunter is in a class by himself.Time to Hunt is as vivid and haunting as a moving target in the crosshairs of a sniper scope."
--Nelson Demille, author of Mayday
"Stephen Hunter is simply the best writer of action fiction in the world and Time to Hunt proves it."
--Phillip Margolin, author of The Burning Man
"The best straight-up thriller writer at work today."
--Rocky Mountain News
"Thrilling in the manner of ancient storytellers, with battles fierce enough for a war and characters crazy enough to fight them to the death."
--New York Times Book Review

From the Hardcover edition."

"Stephen Hunter is in a class by himself. Time to Hunt is as vivid and haunting as a moving target in the crosshairs of a sniper scope."
--Nelson Demille, author of Mayday

"Stephen Hunter is simply the best writer of action fiction in the world and Time to Hunt proves it."
--Phillip Margolin, author of The Burning Man

"The best straight-up thriller writer at work today."
--Rocky Mountain News

"Thrilling in the manner of ancient storytellers, with battles fierce enough for a war and characters crazy enough to fight them to the death."
--New York Times Book Review

From the Hardcover edition.

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