Dead Zero
Written by Stephen Hunter
Narrated by Buck Schirner
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
From New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter comes a thriller that pits former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger against the only man who might be able to outshoot him.
A marine sniper team on a mission in tribal territories on the Afghan-Pakistan border, Whiskey 2-2 is ambushed by professionals using the latest high-tech shooting gear. Badly wounded, the team's sole survivor, Gunnery Sergeant Ray Cruz, aka "the Cruise Missile," is determined to finish his job. He almost succeeds when a mystery blast terminates his enterprise, leaving a thirty-foot crater where a building used to be—and where Sergeant Cruz was meant to be hiding.
Months pass. Ray's target, an Afghan warlord named Ibrahim Zarzi, sometimes called "The Beheader," becomes an American asset in the region and beyond, beloved by State, the Administration, and the Agency. He arrives in Washington for consecration as Our Man in Kabul.
And that brings Ray Cruz out of hiding.
Swagger, the legendary hero of seven of Hunter's novels from Point of Impact to last year's bestselling I, Sniper, is recruited by the FBI to stop the Cruise Missile from reaching his target. The problem is that the more Swagger learns about what happened in Zabol, the more he questions the US government's support of Zarzi and the more he identifies with Cruz as hunter instead of prey.
Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter has written over twenty novels. The retired chief film critic for The Washington Post, where he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, he has also published two collections of film criticism and a nonfiction work, American Gunfight. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I love the bob lee swagger series and while this one was good its was thinner than normal on the sniping and a bit to close close to point of impact.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Substance: Enjoyed the action; good characterization; not for the faint of heart. Foul language on par for the genre and the characters. What looked like far-fetched conspiracy fiction in 2010 seems much more plausible now (after the revelations about Benghazi, Fast & Furious, NSA whistleblowers, and IRS partisan chicanery).Style: guilty of back-stitching, but otherwise okay. Retrospectively (after reading the jacket bio), it does read like a book by a film critic, but I was surprised the author was not former military - good research team?
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I found a pretty good story line with believable characters, though the ending, as has been mentioned before, was pretty weak. All in all it was a good read that I felt could have been better.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I think the basic story line was really good but the dialogue! Ugh! When all the gold 'ole boys get together, the dialogue between them is so corny! Do men really talk to each other that way? I don't think so. And yes, we understand what a great guy Bob Lee is and how he's a hero. But do we have to hear about it on practically every page? May never read another Swagger novel. This isn't the first time I've noticed the dialogue, but it may be the last.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good story line and characters...weak ending with the Hellfire missile hitting the Rose Garden and only 6 people getting killed.