Black Light (Bob Lee Swagger)

Black Light (Bob Lee Swagger)

<b>Only one thing stands between a son and his father's killer: forty years of lies. . .</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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 . . .<br><br>Weaving together characters from his national bestsellers <i>Point of Impact</i> and <i>Dirty White Boys</i>, Stephen Hunter's gripping thriller builds to an exhilarating climax—and an explosion of gunfire that blasts open the secrets of two generations.<br><br><b>Praise for <i>Black Light</i> <br></b><br>“Put on your seat belt—<i>Black Light</i> is a wild ride you won't forget.”<b>—<i>The Chicago Tribune</i></b><br><br>“Nobody writes action better than Stephen Hunter and <i>Black Light</i> is one of his best. . . [The] action scenes play like a movie, the plot is intriguing and the writing is top-notch.”<b>—Phillip Margolin<br></b><br>“Only a handful of writers today can match Hunter for imagination and the ability to make a reader's adrenaline rush.”<b>—<i>New York Daily News</i><br></b><br>“Filled 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.”<b>—<i>The Orlando Sentinel</i><br></b><br>“One of the most skilled hands in the thriller business. The plot is fast-paced, well-constructed and builds to a pulse-pounding night ambush. . . . It should seal his reputation as an author who not only can write bestselling thrillers, but write them exceedingly well.”<b>—<i>Publishers Weekly</i></b>