Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Point of Impact
Book Review: awesome read
Summary: 5 Stars
hunter's books make the long winded, soldier-want-to-be clancy's read like children's books. hunter puts twice the content and story in half as many pages.Book Review: dead on target
Summary: 5 Stars
I was first introduced to Stephen Hunter while browsing through book shelves looking for something new. I saw the authors name and immediately picked it up since he had the same name as my son. I was intrigued by the cover so I gave him a try. I was not disappointed.
The main character Bob Lee Swagger was a loner who hid in the mountains of Arkansas.
Some complain that he is a bit weird for a protagonist but I say anyone that had an upbringing like him and did three tours as a Marine sniper in Vietnam would have to be flawed to some degree. Anyways after 20 years in the mountains he is drawn out by some seamy characters that use him as a patsy in a political assassination plot and he vows vengeance on those responsible. Wrong move on their part. This southern boy don't miss when he aims his gun. He enlists the aid of a down on his luck FBI agent and together they move through all the twists and contortions of a plot you can't really figure out until the end.
Hunter plots like Ludlum, does his research like Clancy and builds characters like King in this best of his efforts in my Opinion. That puts him in mighty good company and worth the price of admission folks. And he also has a pretty good name too, at least I think so.
Larry Hunter author ofThe Mission: A Redemption of the Past
Book Review: excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
This is best of what I have read from Stephen Hunter to date. The material is pure entertainment as not much work was done regarding technical points. The story has some of the best and most credible villians I've found so far. I have loaned the book to a number of other people with rave reviews from allBook Review: it's even got dimensional characters
Summary: 5 Stars
We listened to the audio version on a road trip and it was enthralling. Great plot, great action, and real people who change because of the circumstances they're in. And the reader did a great job, too. If all of Stephen Hunter's books are this good, count me in as a fan.Book Review: the Godiva chocolate of junk-food books
Summary: 5 Stars
Once in a while I need to read some junk food, just to get my mind off stuff, and I came across this little package of unlabeled chocolate (found it in the lobby of my building)...and ate it. I was expecting Hershey's, but no! It was Godiva. Good points: An excellent and clever plot with lots of fast little unexpected twists and turns, characters that were surprisingly more dimensional than one would expect, many sharp little psychological insights, lots and lots and lots of good strong detail about the FBI, the CIA, and most of all, about big-league shooting. (I used to be a shooter way back when, and I had no idea there was so much intricacy to it. I just bought the gun, loaded it, aimed it as best I could, and shot it...and didn't think too much.) Also, the "good guy" characters are extremely sympathetic, and you can't wait for the "bad guys" to get what's coming to them. Lastly, the book is LONG, so it doesn't just start and stop and leave you wanting more.
Weaknesses: at times a little predictable, and at times certain characters somewhat overdone (like Dr. Dobbler - he was just a one-trick pony, which is unrealistic for a "brilliant" psychiatrist, and he could have had more character growth). And lastly, though perhaps this isn't fair, I find myself wondering what motivates someone like Stephen Hunter to write a book like this...a book which, despite its interesting and quick points and rich detail, has very little philosophically or emotionally growth-oriented about it. I guess it's the same thing that motivates someone out there to spend their life developing the ultimate formula for Godiva chocolate. But then again, thank god for Godiva!