VJ Books Presents Author Stephen Hunter!
 Stephen Hunter is a Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author most known for his retired Marine Gunnery Sergeant main character, Bob Lee Swagger.
Born in 1946 and raised in Blue Eye Arkansas, Bob Lee joined the Marines, forging a successful career as a Marine Sniper, serving three tours in Vietnam, working with Special Operations, and earned the nickname 'Bob the Nailer' for his uncanny ability with a rifle. Despite official counts crediting him with 87 combat kills, in reality he has killed a total of 391 men.
In Hunter’s latest thriller featuring Bob Lee Swagger, Targeted, the master sniper protects a group of political hostages during a perilous standoff. After his successful takedown of a dangerous terrorist, Swagger learns that no good deed goes unpunished. Summoned to court by the United States Congress, he is accused of reckless endangerment by a hardheaded anti-gun congresswoman. But what begins as political posturing soon turns deadly when the auditorium where the committee is being held is attacked.
Swagger, the congresswoman, and numerous bystanders and reporters are taken hostage by a group of violent operatives. Soon, the very people who had accused him are depending on him to save their lives.
Before writing novels, Hunter was a journalist. He joined The Baltimore Sun in 1971, working at the copy desk of the newspaper’s Sunday edition for a decade. He then moved to The Washington Post as a film critic in 1997. In 1998, he won the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award in the criticism category and received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2003.
Hunter was born March 1946 in Kansas City, Missouri. He graduated from Northwestern in 1968 with a degree in journalism. After graduating, he was drafted for two years into the US Army serving in The Old Guard (3rd Infantry Regiment) in Washington, D.C., a unit most notable for being the guard force for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He also wrote for a military paper, the Pentagon News.
Hunter currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
You can find a signed copy of Targeted and a collection of other Stephen Hunter signed books below.
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Author Update - Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter Bibliography
Bob Lee Swagger Series
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Point of Impact - 1993
- Black Light - 1996
- Time to Hunt - 1998
- The 47th Samurai - 2007
- Night of Thunder - 2008
- I, Sniper - 2009
- Dead Zero - 2010
- The Third Bullet - 2013
- Sniper's Honor - 2014
- I, Ripper - 2015
- G-Man - May 2017
- Game of Snipers - 2019
- Targeted - 2022
Ray Cruz Series
- Soft Target - 2011
Earl Swagger Series
- Hot Springs - 2000
- Pale Horse Coming - 2001
- Havana - 2003
- Dead Zero - 2010
Other Novels
- The Master Sniper - 1980
- The Second Saladin - 1982
- Target - film novelization - 1985
- The Spanish Gambit - 1985 (reissued as Tapestry of Spies)
- The Day Before Midnight - 1989
- Dirty White Boys - 1994
- Basil's War - May 2021
Non-Fiction
- Violent Screen: A Critic's 13 Years on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem - 1995
- Now Playing at the Valencia : Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays on Movies - 2005
- American Gunfight : The Plot to Kill Harry Truman and the Shoot-out that Stopped It - 2005
Stephen Hunter Awards
- 1998 - American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for Distinguished Writing in Criticism for his work as film critic at The Washington Post.
- 2013 - Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
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