Stephen Hunter is one of the greatest masters of the thriller genre. And his novel’s main character, Bob Lee Swagger, is one of the most vivid figures in the world of thrillers and cinema. This time, the great sniper turns his sharp gaze decades deep—back to 1934, when America began a brutal war against the “enemies of society”: gangsters and bank robbers—Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger, Baby Nelson…
Bob Lee Swagger has long stepped away from the business of shooting at living targets. He left his native places, selling a piece of land and an old house where all his ancestors had lived for more than 200 years. But the past doesn’t let people go so easily. One day Bob received a strange report: during demolition of the house on the sold property, a safe was pulled out of the ground. And inside… were such strange things that Bob would have been better off going to see them himself. And Swagger went.
Not yet knowing that he has begun a journey lasting more than 80 years…