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Originally Posted by lestatar
Orlok. No kidding. You and I are becoming fast friends indeed. 
Stephen Hunter is one of my fave thriller writers. Period. I have been with Hunter since he first broke out with, not with Point of Impact, but with Day Before Midnight from the late 80s as I recall.
Brilliant IMO.
The Swagger series/character is so memorable. Pity, the Marky Mark movie Sniper was just "meh".
FWIW, I highly recommend Hunter for all fans of quality thriller writing.
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Originally Posted by tm3
"point of impact" by hunter is my all time favorite book. i re-read it every few years or so.
realizing that any author can have a few duds, i have "killing floor" on my library wait list. hopefully i like it better than "61 hours" and "one shot."
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As per lestatar, give it a go. I don't think you'll regret it.
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Originally Posted by lestatar
^ Indeed, tm3! I have read PoI a number of times over the years. The opening Bob Lee hunting sequence is forever engrained in my memory - it is classic IMO.
More OT, but what did you think of the Marky Mark movie Sniper, which was loosely based on PoI?
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I thought Marky M was a very poor choice. I don't mind him as an actor, but in my mind Swagger is reasonably tall, and tough in a sinewy way, not a short-*rse who is buff from the bench-press machine. The film itself was also disappointing.
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Originally Posted by lestatar
He wrote a trilogy around a fantastic character named Hugo Fitzduane. I highly recommend the Hangman trilogy and the first one, Games of the Hangman remains one of my all-time fave thriller/military books.
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Another damn series to add to the list. Will it ever end!
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Originally Posted by lestatar
^ Indeed! Good advice, but I am a sucker-completist so unless things go waaaaay off track [e.g. Reacher suddenly turns into a teenage hipster vampire who enjoys drinking O-Positive instead of black coffee], I think I'll be with Mr. Child for as long as he writes this stuff |
You know, even then I might find it hard to stop...as long as the O-Positive is still drunk from thin china mugs
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