Stephen Hunter

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1980
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Bob Lee Swagger

1 - Point of Impact (Feb-1993)
2 - Black Light (1996)
3 - Time to Hunt (May-1998)
4 - The 47th Samurai (Sep-2007)
5 - Night of Thunder (Oct-2008)
6 - I, Sniper (Jan-2010)
7 - Dead Zero (Jan-2011)
8 - The Third Bullet (Jan-2013)
9 - Sniper's Honor (May-2014)
10 - G-Man (May-2017)
11 - Game of Snipers (Aug-2019)
12 - Targeted (Aug-2021)

Earl Swagger

1 - Hot Springs (Jun-2000)
2 - Pale Horse Coming (Oct-2001)
3 - Havana (Oct-2003)
4 - The Bullet Garden (Jan-2023)

Ray Cruz

1 - Soft Target (Dec-2011)

Multi-Author Series List

Bibliomysteries

24 - Citadel (Jan-2016)

Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • The Master Sniper

    IN THE DEATH THROES OF WORLD WAR II, ONE MAN IS STILL AT WAR. AND HE'S GOT THE WORLD'S DEADLIEST WEAPON IN HIS HANDS.... With a sniper's rifle he has calmly executed hundreds of enemy soldiers in a single battle, and gunned down thousands of innoc...

  • The Second Saladin

    Once Paul Chardy had been among the Agency's best and brightest. Now he was a Cold War burnout, sick of the dirty tricks and dirtier lies. But the Agency needed Paul Chardy one more time -- and the Agency knew how to make sure he couldn't say no...

  • The Spanish Gambit // Tapestry of Spies

    CHECKMATE The men who gave the orders had no choice. Florry was the only man for the job--so they gave him no choice but to go to a land that East and West had turned into a blood-slick battleground of terror and counter-terror. Florry's missio...

  • Target

    Walter Lloyd. Middle-American. Easy-going Texan. Soon to face the biggest test of his life when his past comes to haunt him with a vengeance. Donna Lloyd. Housewife. Kidnapping victim. She'd do anything for her family. Now she'll learn that they'l...

  • The Day Before Midnight

    The countdown begins when welder Jack Hummel is abducted from his suburban Maryland home and whisked to the South Mountain MX missile site--a top-secret nuclear complex now taken over by paramilitary terrorists. All that stands between the Uzi-arm...

  • Point of Impact

    Bob Lee Swagger - 1

    He was one the best Marine snipers in Vietnam. Today, twenty years later, disgruntled hero of an unheroic war, all Bob Lee Swagger wants to be left alone and to leave the killing behind. But with consummate psychological skill, a shadowy military ...

  • Dirty White Boys

    They busted out of McAlester State Penitentiary--three escaped convicts going to ground in a world unprepared for anything like them.... LAMAR PYE is prince of the Dirty White Boys. With a lion in his soul, he roars -- for he is the meanest, dead...

  • Black Light

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    Bob Lee Swagger - 2

    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 whe...

  • Time to Hunt

    Bob Lee Swagger - 3

    The killer lies in wait, silently watching as a man and his family ride horses under the Idaho sun. Suddenly the shot rings out. A woman screams. Horse hooves thunder. And Bob Lee Swagger is jolted by a sound he knows all too well. Once he was the Ma...



  • Hot Springs

    Earl Swagger - 1

    Earl Swagger is tough as hell. But even tough guys have their secrets. Plagued by the memory of his abusive father, apprehensive about his own impending parenthood, Earl is a decorated ex-Marine of absolute integrity--and overwhelming melancholy. Now...

  • Pale Horse Coming

    Earl Swagger - 2

    Mississippi, 1951: The last place any sane man wants to visit is Thebes State Penal Farm. Of the few who make the journey there, even fewer return. But when an old friend disappears inside Thebes, ex-marine and Arkansas State Police Sgt. Earl Swag...

  • Havana

    Earl Swagger - 3

    Outgunning all others in the arena of razor-edged action and sheer guts, New York Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter plunges Earl Swagger deep into a steamy underworld of power, politics, and blood.... Cuba, 1953: The island is on fire. The Ma...

  • The 47th Samurai

    Bob Lee Swagger - 4

    TO SURVIVE SAMURAI More than 60 years after Earl Swagger spilled the blood of Captain Hideki Yano in the chaotic battle for Iwo Jima, Bob Lee Swagger has pledged to find Yano's sword so that his son Philip may honor his father's heroic legacy. But t...

  • Night of Thunder

    Bob Lee Swagger - 5

    THE NEED FOR SPEED... As the county sheriff's department braces for the endless traffic jams and relentless revelry of their annual NASCAR week. reporter Nikki Swagger searches for a methamphetamine lab that fuels the sleepy Tennessee town's lucrativ...

  • I, Sniper

    Bob Lee Swagger - 6

    Four famed '60s radicals are gunned down at long range by a sniper. Under enormous media scrutiny, the FBI quickly concludes that Marine war hero Carl Hitchcock, whose ninety-three kills were considered the leading body count tally among American mar...

  • Dead Zero

    Bob Lee Swagger - 7

    From New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter comes a thriller that plunges deep into the world of high-tech national security, the hearts and minds of those who kill for duty, and the latest mission for veteran snip...

  • Soft Target

    Ray Cruz - 1

    10,000 people jam the corridors of America's largest shopping mall. 9,988 of them have come to shop. The other 12 have come to kill. Stephen Hunter's hyperdrive, eighth-gear thriller chronicles the day when the unthinkable happens: terrorists des...

  • The Third Bullet

    Bob Lee Swagger - 8

    Bob Lee Swagger is back in a thriller fifty years in the making . . . It’s not even a clue. It’s a whisper, a trace, a ghost echo, drifting down through the decades via chance connections so fragile that they would disintegrate in the puff of ...

  • Stephen Longacre's Greatest Match

    Stephen Longacre, good for nothing playboy, is given an ultimatum by his wealthy father. Unless he rises to a certain challenge, his father will disconnect him from his world, and that includes paying for his lavish lifestyle. Longacre finally takes ...



  • Sniper's Honor

    Bob Lee Swagger - 9

    In this tour de force -- part historical thriller, part modern adventure -- from the New York Times bestselling author of I, Sniper, Bob Lee Swagger uncovers why WWII’s greatest sniper was erased from history…and why her disappearance still matte...

  • I, Ripper

    The electrifying new thriller from New York Times bestseller Stephen Hunter takes you deep inside the mind of the most notorious serial killer of all time: Jack the Ripper. In the fall of 1888, Jack the Ripper slaughtered five prostitutes in Londo...

  • Citadel

    Bibliomysteries - 24

    A thrilling new novella from the bestselling author of the Bob Lee Swagger series.   A captain in the British Army, Basil St. Florian has been tasked with a dangerous mission in the midst of World War II. He has been sent across the English Channel ...

  • G-Man

    Bob Lee Swagger - 10

    From bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter, the latest episode in the Bob Lee Swagger saga, which finds Bob uncovering his family’s secret tommy gun war with 1930s gangsters like John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson. Ryan P...

  • Game of Snipers

    Bob Lee Swagger - 11

    In this blazing new thriller from Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter, master sniper Bob Lee Swagger takes on his biggest job to date...and confronts an assassin with skills that match his own. When Bob Lee Swagger is approached by a woman who lo...

  • Basil's War

    A swashbuckling British agent goes behind enemy lines to search for a religious text that might hold the key to ending the second World War Basil St. Florian is an accomplished agent in the British Army, tasked with dozens of dangerous missions fo...

  • Targeted

    Bob Lee Swagger - 12

    Master sniper Bob Lee Swagger protects a group of political hostages during a perilous standoff in this razor-sharp, white-knuckled thriller from Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times bestselling author, and “one of the best thriller novelists arou...

  • The Bullet Garden

    Earl Swagger - 4

    The long-anticipated origin story of legendary Marine, fan favorite, and father of literary icon Bob Lee takes us to the battlefields of World War II as Earl Swagger embarks on a top secret and deadly mission -- from Pulitzer Prize­â€"winning and Ne...

  • Front Sight

    A collection of three interconnected novellas that follow each generation of the iconic Swagger family -- grandfather Charles, father Earl, and fan favorite hero Bob Lee -- from New York Times bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and “true ma...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Stephen Hunter has published 28 books.

Stephen Hunter does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Front Sight, was published in January 2024.

The first book by Stephen Hunter, The Master Sniper, was published in January 1980.

Yes. Stephen Hunter has 3 series.
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