Author:Stephen Hunter
Twenty-five years after the end of the Vietnam War, Bob, 'the Nailer' Swagger is back in the warzone. The Russian sniper with whom he duelled in the jungle and who killed his friend, Donny Fenn, has tracked him down to the remote mountains of Idaho. Soon one man is dead and Swagger's family is under threat. Why has the Russian resumed the conflict? Is it simply revenge, or does it go back further, to a dirty secret buried buried in the extraordinary times of the late sixties when ideologies clashed and America's bitter war was reaching its height?
A truly gripping story which keeps you superglued to the page right up till the last explosive moment
—— Glasgow HeraldUp there with the likes of James Lee Burke and Michael Connelly at the forefront of hard-boiled American crime fiction
—— Glasgow HeraldA powerful, atavistic book...full of threat and mystery. Wonderful strong stuff
—— Lisa CodyEngrossing and memorably exciting
—— Anthony Quinton , Evening StandardA great storyteller who knows how to make sure that the reader has to turn the pages out of a desperate need to find out what is going to happen next.
—— John Mortimer , Sunday TimesUnequalled ability to build a sustain suspense
—— Peter Guttridge , ObserverRemarkable . . . genuinely clever and learned, often funny, brilliantly constructed and surprisingly touching . . . a debut of scintillating intelligence and scope.
—— Mail on Sunday