Stephen Hunter Front Sight. Op 14 maart 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Artia Books de nieuwe thriller van de Amerikaanse schrijver Stephen Hunter. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.
Stephen Hunter Front Sight recensie
Ook is er aandacht voor de boekbesprekingen en recensie van de misdaadverhalen Front Sight, geschreven door Stephen Hunter. zodra deze in de media verschijnen.
- “Existing fans will be delighted by the amount of character development and action Hunter packs into these novellas, while new readers will find them a perfect entry point into the Swagger universe. Hunter is at the top of his game.” (Publishers Weekly)
- “One of the best thriller novelists around.” (The Washington Post)
Stephen Hunter boeken en informatie
Stephen Hunter is op 25 maart 1946 geboren in Kansas City, Missouri in de Verenigde Staten. Hij volgde de studie journalistiek aan de Northwestern University in Evenston, Illinois. Hij was jarenlang werkzaam als journalist. Daarnaast schijft hij al sinds de jaren tachtig van de vorige eeuw romans en dan met name thrillers.
Hij is vooral bekend geworden door zijn reeks boeken waarin verschillende leden van de Swagger familie de hoofdrol spelen wat ook in zijn nieuwe boek het geval is. Inmiddels zijn ruim twintig boeken van Stephen Hunter verschenen, echter geen enkele ervan is tot nu toe in Nederlandse vertaling verschenen.
Front Sight
Three Swagger Novellas
- Auteur: Stephen Hunter (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse thriller
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Atria Books
- Verschijnt: 14 maart 2024
- Omvang: 480 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: £18.99 / £11.99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Libris
Flaptekst van de nieuwe thriller van Stephen Hunter
This collection of three interconnected novellas follows each generation of the iconic Swagger family—grandfather Charles, father Earl, and fan favorite hero Bob Lee.
In The Night Train, Charles Swagger is on the hunt for notorious bank robber Baby Face Nelson when he traces a tip to the Chicago stock yards. While there, he’s brutally assaulted and discovers that the madman who attacked him is involved in a nearby narcotics ring with plans to spread its new drug to the residents of the disenfranchised 7th District of Chicago. Worse, this is no ordinary drug—it makes some users happy, drives others insane, and kills many of the rest. Will Charles be able to stop the ring before it’s too late? Or is he in over his head among the dark streets of Chicago?
Earl Swagger investigates a violent bank robbery in Johnny Tuesday that left two dead and a fortune missing in small-town Maryland. At every turn, however, he’s met with silence and hostility from the townsfolk, which makes sense when he uncovers municipal corruption, working-class exploitation, gang politics, jaded aristocrats, scheming gamblers, a hitman, a femme fatale. And a whole bunch of men with guns. Luckily, Earl has brought his own guns in this unputdownable noir mystery.
Finally, in Five Dolls for the Gut Hook, a thirty-two-year-old Bob Lee Swagger is back from Vietnam nearly broken over good men lost for nothing. He’s turned hard down that whiskey road to hell. But one afternoon he’s wakened from his nightmares by two men with a problem. As nearby Hot Springs tries to retool its image from gambling paradise to family resort, a butcher has begun to prey on the city’s young women, a figure straight out of a horror movie. Hot Springs Homicide is baffled. “I’m a sniper,” says Bob, “not a detective.”
“But,” comes the reply, “you are the son and grandson of two of the greatest detectives this state has ever produced.” On that premise alone, Bob takes up the hunt for a killer who not only kills but desecrates. Using his sniper’s mind, Swagger is able to see things others have missed, drawing ever closer to a showdown. But equally, we understand, Bob Lee Swagger is hunting his own salvation.