The Bullet Garden is timeless Swagger lore in a game of battlefield chess. Expertly blending espionage and warfighting, Hunter draws you in with the larger-than-life Earl Swagger and his love for country.
The year is 1944 and on the heels of island warfighting in the Pacific, Earl Swagger is a legend teaching marksmanship to all the new Marine recruits at Parris Island. As the war continues to rage on overseas Swagger and his expertise are called upon to assist one of the most devastating death machines plaguing the Americans. Snipers.
Swagger teams up with some remarkable and bloodied characters to help draft a plan to combat the issue at hand. Working hand in hand with Army officers and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), Swagger has a non-celebrated field promotion to help navigate tricky politics. While the OSS is the premier spy agency in the United States, they aren’t the only country utilizing dark intelligence gathering techniques which leads to unnecessary blood being spilled.
While there is a whole host of back-alley secrets being passed to inhibit progress in the war-ravaged European continent, Swagger does what Swaggers do, they use their cunning ability to hunt and become the predator that they are so accustomed to being. Through unnavigable hedgerows and death fields, Swagger and team must find a way to end the sniper threat to allied soldiers, while attempting to find out why their plans seem to be known to the enemy.
Stephen Hunter has always wowed me with his creativity in storytelling and I was curious how he was going to follow up last years Targeted. Well, he absolutely nailed it. With the delivery of this historical war time thriller, you’ll notice a poetic and emotional tour of the Allied war efforts from the rifles of some of the most talented warfighters. Savagery and political needs are common hurdles thrown in the way, but Hunter shows how Swagger leads from the front and pursues truth and justice at all costs.
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