The Third Bullet
A Bob Lee Swagger Novel
1st Edition
Published on 15. January 2013
496 pages
978-1-4516-4025-0 (ISBN)
Description
Former marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger investigates one of the most enduring controversies of our time?the JFK assassination?in this New York Times bestselling "terrific thriller" (Booklist, starred review).
It's not even a clue. It's a whisper, a trace, a ghost echo, drifting down through the decades via chance connections so fragile that they would disintegrate in the puff of a breath. But it's enough to get legendary former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger interested in the events of November 22, 1963, and the third bullet that so decisively ended the life of John F. Kennedy and set the stage for one of the most enduring controversies of our time.
Swagger begins his slow night stalk through a much-traveled landscape, unraveling government cover-ups and Cold War secrets. But he's asking questions that few have asked before: Why did the third bullet explode? Why did Lee Harvey Oswald, about to become the most hunted man on earth, risk it all by returning to his rooming house to secure a pistol he easily could have brought with him? How could a conspiracy that went unpenetrated for fifty years have been thrown together in the two and a half days between the announcement of the president's route and the assassination itself?
As Bob investigates, another voice enters the narrative: knowing, ironic, almost familiar, that of a gifted, Yale-educated veteran of the CIA Plans Division. Hugh Meachum has secrets and the means and the will to keep them buried. When weighed against his own legacy, Swagger's life is an insignificant expense?but to blunt the threat, he'll first have to ambush the assassin.
As each man hunts the other across today's globe and through the thickets of history, The Third Bullet builds to an explosive climax that will finally prove what Bob Lee Swagger has always known: it's never too late for justice.
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Stephen Hunter is creator of the Bob Lee Swagger novels as well as many others. The retired chief film critic for The Washington Post, where he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, he has also published two collections of film criticism and a nonfiction work, American Gunfight. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Map
- Part I: U.S.A.
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Part II: Mockba
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Part III: Back in the U.S.A.
- Chapter 13
- The Memoirs of a Case Officer: 1
- The Memoirs of a Case Officer: 2
- Chapter 14
- The Memoirs of a Case Officer: 3
- Chapter 15
- The Memoirs of a Case Officer: 4
- The Memoirs of a Case Officer: 5
- Chapter 16
- The Memoirs of a Case Officer: 6
- The Memoirs of a Case Officer: 7
- Chapter 17
- The Memoirs of a Case Officer: 8
- The Memoirs of a Case Officer: 9
- The Memoirs of a Case Officer: 10
- Chapter 18
- The Memoirs of a Case Officer: 11
- Chapter 19
- The Memoirs of a Case Officer: 12
- The Memoirs of a Case Officer: 13
- The Memoirs of a Case Officer: 14
- The Memoirs of a Case Officer: 15
- Chapter 20
- The Memoirs of a Case Officer: 16
- Chapter 21
- The Memoirs of a Case Officer: 17
- The Memoirs of a Case Officer: 18
- Part IV: Connecticut
- Chapter 22
- The Memoirs of a Case Officer: 19
- Chapter 23
- The Memoirs of a Case Officer: 20
- Chapter 24
- A Note on Method
- Acknowledgments
- The Shim's Tale
- 'Targeted' Teaser
- About Stephen Hunter
- Copyright
