Spanning the mid-fifties up to the present day, this story features one of Stephen Hunter's most vivid creations, sniper hero Bob Lee Swagger. He has returned to Blue Eye, Arkansas to find out why he killed his father in a sensational shoot-out back in 1955.

Sent to Vietnam, Donny partners Bob Lee Swagger, one of the most accomplished snipers in the U.S. armed forces. The Sniper King, a Russian is trailing them. Donny cannot understand why but the final showdown will be in the U.S.A, not Vietnam.

In the jungles of Vietnam, Bob Lee Swagger was known as 'Bob the Nailer' for his high-scoring target rate at killing. Today the master sniper lives in a trailer in the Arkansas mountains, and just wants to be left alone. The mission is top secret. One thing goes wrong: double-crossed Bob has come out alive. Now he is on the run.

Bob Lee Swagger has seen enough of war and fighting: his past as a Marine Corps sniper and as an avenger has been a bloody one. But the hope that he is finished with combat are dashed with a visit from Colonel Philip Yano. Yano has come to America to find a samurai sword that Bob's father took from Yano's father in the battle for Iwo Jima in 1945.

A fast-paced, highly-charged thriller featuring former Marine Corps sniper Bob Lee Swagger. When four famous 1960s radicals are gunned down, Swagger is called in to investigate. As his investigation proceeds, Swagger finds himself face to face with a killer whose keen intellect and pinpoint accuracy rival his own.

Kniha fejetonů a soudniček Martina Horského, koncipovaná ve stylu klasika tohoto žánru Karla Kyncla, k jehož odkazu se autor programově hlásí, nepřináší jen nezávazné žertovné hledání životem (a poté pochopitelně i tiskem) přinášených absurdit: mnohé situace s vývojem na politické scéně - multikulturalismus, policejní a justiční praxe či politická kultura přímo volají ke srovnání i s naší realitou. Horský z tohoto proudu vybírá příběhy s delší prodlevou trvanlivosti, přinášející jiskry humorných záblesků do šedi londýnského smogu,...