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| Point of Impact | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephen Hunter
Publisher: Bantam
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (185 reviews)
Sales Rank: 17293
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 592
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.4
ISBN: 0553563513
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553563511
ASIN: 0553563513
Publication Date: December 1, 1993
Release Date: November 1, 1993
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 Read It May 13, 2005
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter is a great example of how one decision can change your life. The author uses great literary techniques to make the reader really feel what's going on.
The book starts out when Bob Lee Swagger (ex-sniper US marines) is asked to come out of retirement and do one more mission.
The plan was to assasinate a high esteemed Russian leader. The job was executed perfectly but things go bad when Bob finds out the plan was not just to kill the boss but also to kill him. Bob then spends his time trying to kill the people who tried to take his life away.
The only people Bob trusts are a young woman named Sarah and another young man named Nick. Everyone else has either betyrayed him or been killed.
The two then help Bob with his plan. But things go ary when Sarah is kidnapped.
This is a great book for those who like the Tom Clancy style without all the political talk.
One Shot, One Kill April 4, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I kind of read this one out of order with "Black Light." But that still didn't stop me from enjoying this novel as well. Maybe a little more. Although its interesting to note that Nick Memphis has not made an appearence in any of Hunter's other tales. He's about run out of usable time for the two Swagger men. Unless he plans to cover Earl's service years in the Marines. Anyway, back to "Point," Hunter's knowledge and research into our sub-culture of guns is astounding. I myself own a few, though I don't get to hunt or shoot as much as I used to, I still consider myself a part of that sub-culture, so I guess what I'm trying to say is, is that I enjoy the gun details, the bullet grains, the droppage, and the assignment of an actual manufactured firearm to a character.
Oh yes, once again someone has double crossed a swagger, but just like his father before him, Bob Lee is nearly uncrossable, eventhough they try not to they always under estimate him, his opponents consider him a country hick, a bumpkin who doesn't know much more than shooting, but alas they get it everytime, the Swagger men are smart as they come as well as deadly as they come.
Read enjoy, live the action and join "Bob The Nailer," as he is nearly framed for an assassination then hounded throughout much of the U.S. until he seeks his revenge and begins to the hounding.
 "It Don't Shoot" September 30, 2004
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The greatest line in the book was "It Don't Shoot." For the sake of not spoiling things, I will not explain what that line means but you wlll have to read it toward the end.
This is my first Hunter novel and I was absolutely dumbfounded after reading it. Swagger is a very complex character who has a lot of ghosts from Viet Nam that still haunt him, especially the memory of his best friend getting killed by enemy fire. Swagger is one of the best snipers in the business and he is cajoled by a rogue group of secret government operatives into involving himself in an assassination plot. After the rogue operatives fail to kill him, he becomes a fugitive from justice and has to team up with a disgraced FBI agent to clear his name. Very tense thriller involving government coverups, trickery and constant grandstanding by the Asst Director of the FBI.
I could not put this one down. Hunter scores big with this one.
If you are considering this, you have good taste in books. September 19, 2004
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Not going to bore you with long review. It's a great read.... Why is it a great read you ask? Well... when you mix an Arkansas Vietnam Sniper Vet with a powerful and deadly rifle against uniformed thugs with serious issues... you got a winner. This book certainly is one.
This author, Stephen Hunter, is sooooooo good at writing about shooting that he will make you feel the actual trigger pull on your finger when reading this book.
Well inside a minute of angle August 31, 2004
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Gunnery Sergeant Bob Lee Swagger was a Marine Corps sniper in Vietnam, who had killed eighty-seven of the enemy (confirmed). Almost as many as the real-life Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, who had 93 confirmed kills. Both men used a Remington model 700 bolt-action rifle.
Sergeant Swagger was severely wounded, and his spotter killed, by an enemy sniper. His wounds resulted in his disability retirement, and eventual permanent retirement from the Marine Corps. The bad guys in this book, working on contract for a central American regime, seek to assassinate an influential cleric whose politics are antithetical to their own, when the President of the United States is due to honor him with a decoration in New Orleans.
Swagger is not aware of the actual plot, and when they tell him that the president is the subject of an assassination attempt, and want him to tell them where the assassin is most likely to strike, pretending to be CIA, he goes along. Little does he know that he is being set up to be the "fall guy," and that the president is not the real target.
This is a well-plotted thriller, and it will keep you reading until you've finished the book. The suspense is maintained, and there is enough accurate detail about firearms, ballistics, and technical details to make it all highly believable. I have ordered another of Stephen Hunter's titles. If he does as well with the next as he did with this one, I'm hooked.
To make the story even more interesting, for me, Swagger, in the story, has a pre-'64 Winchester model 70 ("the rifleman's rifle") in .300 Holland & Holland (H&H) magnum caliber. I have one of the same rifles, in the same caliber, and it, too, will shoot sub-minute-of-angle.
This is a good book, written by one who has researched his subject.
Joseph (Joe) Pierre
author of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance
and other books
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