Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Point of Impact
Book Review: "It Don't Shoot"
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Book Review: "Bob the Nailer" hammers at your imagination from page one!
Summary: 5 Stars
Stephen Hunter is a name Hollywood should have it's eager hands on. "Point of Impact" dazzles the intellect with a superb plot leaving one continually wondering "what's going to happen next" and leaving one amazed at the outcomes! At the same time, his characters are fantastically weaved such that one could place "Bob the Nailer" up with Paul Bunyan, Davy Crocket, and Judge Roy Bean. Imagine if you will, the movie "In the Line of Fire" by Clint Eastwood, and then imagine a story a hundred times more exciting and a hundred times more imaginative. That is about as close as can be compared in film to the enthralling and adventurous book by Hunter, "Point of Impact". So few books nowadays can authentically grab our attentions from the first page, hold our rapt attention, and piledrive us through to the last page with sheer exaltation and hunger like "Point of Impact"! This book among few in fiction is a true testament to "researching your topic" and pure, God-given story-tellin' talent! Stephen Hunter and his writings have taken me to Heaven and back with the sheer caliber of his plots, characters, and writing style. This book will earn a special place on the shelf in your den. This is the book that you will warn your friends not to crease the pages or the binding of. You'll treasure this read as you open to the first page again and again, perhaps smelling the book as you fan the book's edges. I guarantee you'll close this book a far different person than when you began it!
Sean Goodwin
sean.goodwin@dol.net
Elkton, MarylandBook Review: A Great Book For All !!
Summary: 4 Stars
A very enjoyable book in many ways . I think it is important to point out that a knowledge of , or intense interest in , firearms in not required to enjoy the book . Right from the start I found myself draged into the story . A veritable page turner , in my opinon .Book Review: A Real Fan
Summary: 5 Stars
Fantastic tale, an intersting hero and clearly an author with an intelligent, realistic, but not fanatical, view of firearms and the place they hold in American history.Book Review: A SLAM BAM SHOOT I'M UP THRILLER.
Summary: 5 Stars
This authour is one of the best I've read. I just finished reading point of impact and it was great.From the first page to the gut wrinching climax hunter pulls you in and never ever lets you go. The single name bob lee swagger sends shivers up my spine. I dont know any thing about ballistics and I still enjoyed it. I'm reading dirty white boys now [the second one in the trilogy} and I can tell you mr hunter I'm quite