The jack carr book club
June book of the month
point of impact
by STEphen hunter
He was one the best Marine snipers in Vietnam. Today, twenty years later, disgruntled hero of an unheroic war, all Bob Lee Swagger wants to be left alone and to leave the killing behind.
But with consummate psychological skill, a shadowy military organization seduces Bob into leaving his beloved Arkansas hills for one last mission for his country, unaware until too late that the game is rigged.
The assassination plot is executed to perfection—until Bob Lee Swagger, alleged lone gunman, comes out of the operation alive, the target of a nationwide manhunt, his only allies a woman he just met and a discredited FBI agent.
Now Bob Lee Swagger is on the run, using his lethal skills once more—but this time to track down the men who set him up and to break a dark conspiracy aimed at the very heart of America.
why i chose this book
“POINT OF IMPACT is a classic—and one that had a major impact on me both as a SEAL sniper and as a writer. Stephen Hunter’s ability to craft a sharp, relentless thriller with deeply human characters sets the standard. No one captures the essence of the gun like Hunter!
His protagonist Bob Lee Swagger is a U.S. Marine Corps Vietnam veteran – a sniper – haunted but deadly, drawn into a conspiracy that will seem all too real if you are picking this book up for the first time. The pacing, the precision, the grit – Point of Impact has it all! If you’re a fan of the genre, this is essential reading. I’m honored to sit down with Stephen Hunter this month and talk about the book that helped shape my own journey as a sniper and as a storyteller.”
MEET the author
“Stephen Hunter is the author of 20 novels and the retired chief film critic for the Washington Post, where he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism. His novels include The Third Bullet; Sniper’s Honor; I, Sniper; I, Ripper; and Point of Impact, which was adapted for film and TV as Shooter. Hunter lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
