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 than others. My favorite in the series is I, Sniper, the sixth in the series.Here we pick up after Bob has gotten through the events of the first two novels. He's still in sad shape, deep in the bottle s...

Unlike authors of most fiction involving guns and shooting, Hunter knows and understsnds firearms, shooting, reloading, and all things associated. It's a pleasure to read someething where I don't find myself groaning about mistakes and confusion on the topic.

First rate. I will read all of the Bob Lee Swagger books Hunter ever writes.

SUBJECTIVE READER REVIEW FOLLOWS:My first foray into Stephen Hunter's catalogue was the suggestion of fellow reviewer/critic Dan Legare, who read me like an open book making the recommendation that I begin Hunter's collection with book 3, not book 1, of the Bob Lee Swagger series. It took a good 100 pages for the novel to become the latest form of addictive drug, but Hunter somehow built a hybrid of 'American Sniper' and 'Forrest Gump' that all but made me relive my days of living in Washington

After a confusing but necessary slow start and setup this novel blasts into testosterone-laden overdrive with a retelling of Bob and Donny’s epic stand at An Loc Valley in 1972 and then a gripping cat-and-mouse game in the present day. Can’t stop reading these stupid-ass books for some reason. They’re just wonderful escapist well-written garbage and I love it.

This is one of the best novels he's done and I really enjoyed it. It's better than Point of Impact with action, love, guns, revenge, all the good stuff.

Great tour de force for swaggerHunter at his best, vivid descriptive prose painting pictures of physical pain, emotional turmoil and geographic nuance. Plot twists and turns with sacrosanct loyalty to Bob Swagger for his human traits of strength, tenacity, and weakness,yet. moreover his self taught ability to survive.

Time to Hunt is one of eleven books in a series by author Stephen Hunter. The "star" of the series is one Bob Lee Swagger, an alpha male and former sniper in Viet Nam who has returned home after the war, gone on a fifteen-year drinking spree while managing to get himself involved in all sorts of violent encounters with bad guys. This is the third book in the series and Bob Lee has settled down--sort of--and is living with his wife and young daughter in the greater Boise, Idaho area.I recently re...

Twenty Five years after the end of the Vietnam War Bob "The Nailer" Swagger is back in the war zone. A Russian sniper with whom he dueled in the jungle and who killed his friend Donny Fenn has tracked him down to the remote mountains of Idaho. Soon one man isdead and Swagger's family is under threat. Why has this Russian resumed the conflict, is itrevenge or does it go back further to a secret buried in the extraordinary times of the latesixties. This is book three in the Bob Lee Swagger series

Third book in the Bob Lee Swagger series is a major disappointment for me. Excruciatingly long and minutely detailed account of Swagger's last tour in Viet Nam. I love military-style action but don't really care for war books. Over half of this is a war story and I just find it tedious. There is some good stuff in here, including a decent mystery. But I had to slog my way through so much exposition to find it. I am hoping #4 is better.

My introduction to the author was this book. Part adventure, part thriller, part mystery, the zigs and zags this story takes you on are so well executed your mind is left reeling. Once you are introduced to Marine sniper "Bob the Nailer" you will seek out all the books he is in. So good even my mother enjoyed it!

It's as always with those books: first narrative flows slowly even lazily and then the last 100 pages plot is rushing and you have to pull an all-nighter cause you just can't put it down and not know if Swagger won.I finally came to conclusion that this is a detective stories where old sniper is playing a detective. First story was about himself, second was about his father and his death's secret and now it was time for Donny to tell his story. I wonder. So many things could have gone differentl...

I am quickly becoming a Stephen Hunter fan. This is the fourth book I've read from Mr. Hunter, and probably the one I've enjoyed the most.There are no real spoilers here. The book starts with a man, woman, and child riding their horses towards a cliff edge to enjoy the view. A sniper, across the canyon, draws bead on them, and the man is blown out of the saddle. We then flash back to the end of 1971 and beginning of 1972. We finally get to hear the back story (spoiler alert if you haven't read p...

4 1/2 stars. Story has an epic sweep to it and a very compelling plot. Started reading this series because I was out of Jack Reacher books. I thought Point of Impact was very good and clever, but this is something more special.

This book took forever to get off the ground, with a 109 page introduction of sorts. I did not like it. I've liked all of Hunter's other books that I've read, so I won't toss the rest of them.

This is the third book in the Bob Lee Swagger series and another enjoyable read. The plot starts after the events of the last two books but we only get a short teaser into Bob's current life, a quick cliff-hanger before we jump back in time to the Vietnam War era. And once there, the POV shifts to Donny Fenn, a young marine who had been severely wounded during a tour in Vietnam but is now in Washington DC serving in a nice "safe" position. We get to watch him get drawn into the peace movement an...

More of Bob Lee Swagger. Ranging from the jungles of Vietnam to the present, Bob must find the link that ties himself & Donny Fenn to the sniper Salaratov.This one was slow to start, with 85 pages of Vietnam era peace movement politics. It had a great section where Bob Lee & his spotter take on a battalion of North Vietnamese.

This book has an old nemesis after Swagger. He is still holding a grudge from Vietnam when they were both snipers. He is a Russian snipper and has thought he shot Swagger but instead hit someone on a horse. Swagger though becomes more intense when his wife and daughter are in danger and now, he goes on the hunt for the Russian snipper himself. You get flashbacks with his time when he was in Vietnam which actually helps with the character and only adds to the story for me. I liked everything abou...

Another solid installment in the Bob Lee Swagger series, Stephen Hunter delivers! Time to Hunt takes us back to the days of Swagger as a Marine Sniper with his friend Donny Fenn in the Vietnam War, and to the day of Donny's death at the hands of a Russian assassin. Then the story jumps back to the present, where Swagger is living happily in Idaho with his wife and daugher, but Swagger still can't seem to but his dark past behind him. His ghosts once again come back to haunt him when a shot rings...

Fundamentally, this was a good book. It was well plotted, had interesting and well developed characters and moved along nicely. Much of the book was a flashback to Bob Lee Swagger's time in Vietnam, and that worked fairly well.There was a big twist that was slightly unbelievable and the conclusion simply wasn't believable but, if you can suspend reality for a bit, you might enjoy it. I debated whether to give the nook a three or four star rating and went with the latter because 95% of it was a r...