Black Light

At the heart of Stephen Hunter's riveting new novel is a 40-year-old crime that has just resurfaced. Bob Swagger, the enormously popular character first introduced in Point of Impact, is back--and this time he is both the hunter and the hunted as he tries to uncover the searing secrets of his long-dead father's murder. nOnly one thing stands between a son and his father's killer: forty years of lies. . . On a remote Arizona ranch, a man who has known loss, fear, and war weeps for the first time since he was a child. His tears are for the father taken from him four decades before in a deadly shoot-out. And his grief will lead him back to the place where he was born, where his father died, and where a brutal conspiracy is about to explode. For Bob Lee Swagger, the world changed on that hot day in Blue Eye, Arkansas, when two local boys rode armed and wild in a '55 Fairlane convertible. Swagger's father, Earl, a state trooper, was investigating the brutal murder of a young woman that day. By midnight Earl Swagger lay dead in a deserted cornfield. Now Bob Lee wants answers. He wants to know the truth behind the shoot -out that took his father's life, a mystery buried in forty years of lies. Because for Bob Lee Swagger, the killing didn't end that day in Blue Eye, Arkansas. The killing had just begun . . . Weaving together characters from his national bestsellers Point of Impact and Dirty White Boys, Stephen Hunter's gripping thriller builds to an exhilarating climax--and an explosion of gunfire that blasts open the secrets of two generations. Praise for Black Light n nPut on your seat belt--Black Light is a wild ride you won't forget.--The Chicago Tribune Nobody writes action better than Stephen Hunter and Black Light is one of his best. . . [The] action scenes play like a movie, the plot is intriguing and the writing is top-notch.--Phillip Margolin n nOnly a handful of writers today can match Hunter for imagination and the ability to make a reader's adrenaline rush.--New York Daily News n nFilled with detail, clever plotting, suspense, and a hunt to the death that leaves the reader dry-mouthed with tension. Hunter knows his guns, and he writes about them with a precision that holds the attention of even a fervent anti-gun supporter.--The Orlando Sentinel n nOne of the most skilled hands in the thriller busines