If Ian Fleming were alive today, he`d no doubt be a fan of Stephen Hunter, author of Point of Impact, a book i`m highly recommending to 007Forever visitors. If you remember, a while back I recommended to many of you that you should read Vertical Run and everyone who read it loved it. I have no doubt you`ll find Point of Impact just as thrilling.
Ooooh, if only the Bond novels were as taut or psychologically compelling as Point of Impact! The hero of the book is Bob Lee Swagger, the anti-Bond. He is an ex-Vietnam veteran, Marine Corp sniper. He`s one of the worlds best hunters and can hit a target from as far away as 1400 feet. After the war, in which Swagger was wounded by a sniper and his best friend killed, Swagger pretty much drops out of sight and retires to a rural Arkansas life of hunting and collecting veterans disability benefits. He wants very little to do with other people.
Fast forward 20 years later to 1992. The CIA requests a meeting with Swagger under the pretense that he`s going to be testing some new, state-of-the-art ammunition. Swagger obliges them and after satisfying themselves that Swagger still has his skills, they tell him why they really need him: the CIA has apparently uncovered a plot by the Iraqis to assassinate the President in retribution for their loss during the Gulf War. To do that, the Iraqis have recruited the worlds other best sniper, a Russian named Solaratov, who is every bit Swagger`s equal if not more.
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To say much more about this book would be criminal; there are so many twists and turns that even the most savvy and seasoned veteran of the espionage thriller will be hard pressed to figure out what is going to happen next. Rare is the book that can hook you from the first page, but that is exactly what Hunter does.
The book haselements of The Man With The Golden Gun and The Living Daylights mixed in. Swagger, like Bond, is up against an extremely formidable foe. For all intents and purposes Solaratov is a faceless assassin. The CIA has a very vague picture of him, no idea where he will strike, how he will do it, nor when he will do it. They only know that the President may be in danger. Can Bob Lee Swagger stop the assassination before it takes place? You`ll just have to read the book to find out. (4 stars out of 4)