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  • The Bullet Garden

  • An Earl Swagger Novel
  • Written by: Stephen Hunter
  • Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
  • Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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The Bullet Garden

Written by: Stephen Hunter
Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
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Publisher's Summary

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 Prize­-winning and New York Times bestselling Stephen Hunter, “one of the best thriller novelists around” (The Washington Post).

July, 1944: The lush, rolling hills of Normandy are dotted with a new feature—German snipers. From their vantage points, they pick off hundreds of Allied soldiers every day, bringing the D-Day invasion to its knees. It’s clear that someone is tipping off these snipers with the locations of American GIs, but who? And how?

General Eisenhower demands his intelligence service to find the best shot in the Allied military to counter this deadly SS operation. Enter Pacific hero Earl Swagger, assigned this crucial and bloody mission. With crosshairs on his back, Swagger can’t trust anyone as he infiltrates the shadowy corners of London and France for answers.

From “a true master at the pinnacle of his craft” (Jack Carr, author of the Terminal List series), The Bullet Garden is an electrifying historical thriller that is sure to become a classic.

©2023 Stephen Hunter (P)2023 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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Great

Another great story!
I wish Stephen could write 100 of these!!
All my years of reading WWII books and never heard of the Bullet Garden, learn something new every day

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Gangbusters!

This is a spy story in a time of war. There is so much intrigue, subterfuge and action it reads like an Ian Fleming novel. Bravo.

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It's no Hot Springs

I understand that every book written by the same author is not going to be exactly the same.
Having said that. If "Stephen Hunter" wasn't displayed next to the title, I would have thought this was someone elses work.
The writing itself was great as always, but the genre and amount of action was astoundingly minimal in comparison to what I was used to from Mr.Hunter.
the first 2 hours and the last 2 hours was the only time I felt excited to listen.
Earl swagger may have a total 1 hour of dialogue, and maybe fired 3 mags of ammo the entire book.

I'll finish by saying, I think the story was good, and some poeple will love it.
But if you came here to satisfy your Earl Swagger craving, it's not here.

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