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Title: Hot Springs : A Novel by Stephen Hunter, Jay O. Sanders ISBN: 0-7435-3268-6 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.01 (73 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Another good entry in the Swagger series
Comment: Hot Springs, Arkansas. 1946. The most wide open town in the United States. The mob owns the police, the judges, and the politicians. Gambling, girls, whatever a man wants is freely available. But a newly elected prosecuting attorny decides to change that. He hires Earl Swagger, newly discharged Medal-of-Honor winner and legendary FBI man D.A. Parker to clean up the town. But Earl Swagger still carries emotional baggage from the war and even further back from his mean drunk of a father. Does Earl have a death wish as he leads ever more violent raids with reckless disregard? And now that the mob is throughly aroused will they bring in outside "hitters" to take Earl and DA Parker down?
This is the prequel to a few of Mr. Hunter's books, namely Black Light, A Time to Hunt, and Point of Impact. These other three books chronicle the life of legendary Marine sniper, Bob Swagger. Bob's father, Earl, is touched on briefly in those books but Hot Springs is Earl's own story.
Like all of the Stephen Hunter books I've read, this one was fast-paced and gripping. It wasn't quite as techincal as his previous books and there was a little more humor in this one. I didn't find it quite as strong as the Bob Swagger books but it is still a very good read. I'd recommend it highly. The reader may also want to read the Bob Swagger books first, but it really isn't necessary to enjoy this one. Another good book from a very good writer.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Very Enjoyable Crime Novel
Comment: This is only the second book I've read by Stephen Hunter, after _Point of Impact_, but it was another winner. The book mixes real history and characters with fictional characters to great effect, something along the lines of what Max Allan Collins does in his Nate Heller mysteries. Set in the post-WWII years in the corrupt town of Hot Springs, Arkansas, Hunter succeeds in creating a real page-turner, as we follow the adventures of Earl Swagger, a depressed war hero with something of a death wish, as he puts together a group of young lawmen to weed out the corruption.
The group is something like the Untouchables--young, single men gathered from police forces around the country so that they will not be compromised by local connections. The scenes of the group's training are among the best in the book, along with the action sequences wherein they bring down a number of casinos.
This isn't a perfect book by any means: Hunter really strains sometimes to tell his story and there are a lot of very awkward sentence constructions. He isn't entirely successful in bringing the historical characters--Bugsy Siegel, Virginia Hill, etc.--to real, believable life. And, as in the Bob Lee Swagger books, there's a bit too much attention to the guns and the gunplay for any but the firearms-obsessed, which Hunter appears to be.
Still, this was a very fast-moving and enjoyable book and I'd recommend it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Would Make a Good Movie!
Comment: Not as good as Point of Impact, but still a very good read and gets better as it motors along. Would make a good movie!
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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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Title: Black Light by Stephen Hunter ISBN: 044022313X Publisher: Island Books Pub. Date: 07 April, 1997 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: Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter ISBN: 0553563513 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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