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Title: Black Light by Stephen Hunter ISBN: 0-440-22313-X Publisher: Island Books Pub. Date: 07 April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.26 (39 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Black Light Sheds Light On Earl Swagger
Comment: With the recent publication and release of "Hot Springs", a story about Earl Swagger in his early years of law enforcement, I thought I would reread "Black light" to reacquaint myself with him in the time leading up to his death. I'm glad I did.
"Black Light" is the powerful, hard-hitting story of Bob Swagger's investigation into the death of his father, Earl. As he investigates the murder of his father, Bob becomes a target himself as he uncovers the secret past of some powerful men.
As I read this book with the knowledge of the specifics of why and how Earl was killed, I still was held in the grip of this action-packed, cleverly written suspense novel. I continue to be impressed with the breadth of knowledge Mr. Hunter possesses and with the writing style he uses to convey it. Especially effective is the way Earl and Bob ask themselves questions and the reader follows their thought processes until they come to a solution. Hunter also has a talent for develping real-life and believable characters that the reader develops a strong feeling for. One character I hope will move within "Hot Springs" is a younger Sam Vincent, the Polk County prosecutor who helped Bob as an absent-minded but intelligent 80 year old.
I strongly endorse all of Stephen Hunter's books. He is the best kept secret of action and suspense fiction.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Fine Ending to the Trilogy
Comment: Black Light completes the Bob Lee Swagger trilogy which began with Point of Impact, followed by Dirty White Boys. Hunter knows his guns and his characters. The dialogue seems true to place and time, and race relations as they existed in 1955 Arkansas have been portrayed in the context of the time. This book tells the story of Bob Lee's father, Earl, and his death during a gunfight with two young fugitives. The story shifts from 1955, when Earl was shot, to the present as Bob Lee and a young writer try to ferret out the mysteries surrounding Earl's death. They are assisted by Sam, the eighty-six year old lawyer who also appeared in Point of Impact. Sam is refusing to go gently into old age, and struggles mightly with bouts of forgetfullness.
I love Stephen Hunter, and had this been written by a lesser writer I would have been very impressed. Since it WAS written by Hunter, I have to say that I thought it was not quite up to the quality of the first two books in the trilogy. It seemed more hastily written and errors such as aging a character only one year in twenty-seven months were distracting to me. Dirty White Boys is still my favorite, but this is a worthy conclusion to the Swagger trilogy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Can you see through the Black Light
Comment: Black Light by Stephen Hunter is a book that should be enjoyed by all adult audiencies. If you are the type of person whom enjoys history and learning about the social classes of the southern states in the late 50's during the segregation movement this book will really cath the readers interest. This novel will depict without any holding back the true ways of the south. This will truly show you just how blacks and whites were treated durning the 1950's and untill the 70's. The book starts off in the south on a hot summer day where you can almost smell, hear and see the first few pages of the book. The details given by Stephen Hunter will make this book jump alive and grab you out of your seat and wish there was a movie made after it because it was so darn good. After Earl Swaggart meets his other trooper(mentioning that he was late to meet) everything starts to go down hill from there. The racist Earl Swaggart seems to have himself caught in a bind. Earl Swaggart thought that being a state tropper would leave him untouched by the black minority families of the south. That was most defintaly a wrong understatment by Earl Swaggart. The story is told in a perspective that is rather interstring where it's almost like a bunch of friends sitting around a campfire telling sortires would be. This way of telling the storie keeps the readers interst. But that bind will best be left up to the reader to find out. So ya better get reading.
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Title: Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter ISBN: 0553563513 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Time to Hunt by Stephen Hunter ISBN: 0440226457 Publisher: Island Books Pub. Date: 13 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Dirty White Boys by Stephen Hunter ISBN: 044022179X Publisher: Island Books Pub. Date: 05 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Hot Springs by Stephen Hunter ISBN: 0671035452 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 22 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Pale Horse Coming by Stephen Hunter ISBN: 0671035460 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 26 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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