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	Hot Springs (Earl Swagger Novels) Stephen Hunter Pocket, 2001 - 560 pages average customer review:based on 81 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great action, great plotting, great character development.

I think this is one of Hunter's best books. As always, the technical info about all aspects of gun fighting is very accurate without bogging the story down (as so often happens when a writer seems overly eager to display his knowledge of weaponry). The story, about a World War II hero hired to help clean up organized crime in Hot Springs, Arkansas, is totally gripping in it's recreation of time and place. For fans of Hunter's work, it is fascinating reading about Bob Lee Swagger's (the hero of many Hunter novels) father and learning his story. Overall, the author seems to strike a deeper tone emotionally in this work than any work previously. Also, the book is at times very dry and funny, particularly the scenes between Bugsy Segal and Virginia Hill, two actual characters of the time and place. Just a great read. This is one of those rare summer thrillers that touch the periphery of "literature". A wonderful book.

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Well now, we meet Bob Lee's Daddy Earl. What a Man! All any of us could ever hope to be. A medal of honor winner and tough as nails, that is much tougher than any Grumleys that he has to face. All kidding aside I love all of Hunters smiper series and this was as good or better than any of them. I will stand by for his new one that is coming out this month. Happy reading to all.

Quick-moving tale, aided by great narration

Heard the taped version of HOT SPRINGS by Stephen
Hunter . . . story of an ex-Marine sergeant, Earl Swaggert, who is
hired to wage a war on corruption in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in
1946 . . . I was afraid that I might not like it because of both the
era and the locale, but was I wrong . . . very quick-moving . . . Hunter
really gives you a feel for what it was like living in the South during
that time . . . this is the first book I have read by the author, but it
probably won't be the last . . . after finishing HOT SPRINGS, I
learned that it is actually a prequel to other novels involving the
Swagert family . . . but that did not impact upon my enjoyment
in this one; i.e., I did not feel "lost" without having Hunter's latter
works . . . Jay O. Sanders, long one of my favorite character
actors, did a superb job of narration . . . he shifted effortelessly
between characters, but perhaps most amazing was the fact
that I did not even recognize Sanders' voice--a real tribute to him.

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difficult to categorize

It's not a mystery, not truly a thriller, maybe an action book....You know the good guys, you know the bad guys and there's action, but it goes beyond the dime store action thriller. It is difficult to put this book in a traditional pigeon hole, but it is sure worth the read. Hunter gives us interesting characters in an interesting place and time with just enough real folks and history that you keep thinking it really happened.

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