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    Sniper's Honor
    Sniper's Honor
    Sniper's Honor
    Audiobook (abridged)6 hours

    Sniper's Honor

    Written by Stephen Hunter

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    About this audiobook

    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 matters today.

    Ludmilla “Mili” Petrova was once the most hunted woman on earth, having raised the fury of two of the most powerful leaders on either side of World War II: Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler.

    But Kathy Reilly of The Washington Post doesn’t know any of that when she encounters a brief mention of Mili in an old Russian propaganda magazine, and becomes interested in the story of a legendary, beautiful female sniper who seems to have all but vanished from history.

    Reilly enlists her friend, former marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, to parse out the scarce details of Mili’s military service. The more Swagger learns about Mili’s last mission, the more he’s convinced her disappearance was no accident—but why would the Russian government go to such great lengths to erase the existence of one of their own decorated soldiers? And why, when Swagger joins Kathy Reilly on a research trip to the Carpathian Mountains, is someone trying to kill them before they can find out?

    As Bob Lee Swagger, “one of the finest series characters ever to grace the thriller genre, now and forever” (Providence Journal-Bulletin), races to put the pieces together, Sniper's Honor takes listeners across oceans and time in an action-packed, compulsive listen.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 20, 2014
    ISBN9781480521582
    Sniper's Honor
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    Stephen Hunter

    Stephen Hunter has written over twenty novels. The retired chief film critic for The Washington Post, where he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, he has also published two collections of film criticism and a nonfiction work, American Gunfight. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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    • 4/5
      Very good novel. Hunter runs both a narrative story of a beautiful Russian sniper in the eastern front and one with hero Swagger in current times as he ferrets out her fate.
    • 4/5
      Sniper’s Honor I found to be a very good read. I do tend to enjoy a book that tells a story of the past and the present in tandem. Here we have Bob Lee Swagger, a rather famous contemporary sniper who learns about Milli Petrova, a WWII Russian sniper who killed Nazi’s and then disappeared. We get the two stories in parallel. Bob trying to find out what happened to Milli and Milli’s story.Swagger’s friend Kathy Reilly, a reporter for the Washington Post, sent him an email asking about an old Russian sniper rifle. It peaks Bob’s interest, especially when she mentions it’s in relation to a Russian sniper that disappeared from all the records. A beautiful woman sniper.Swagger decides to hop a plane and go help his friend do a little snooping to see if between them then can find out what happened to Milli. After they meet up and start poking around, Bob starts wondering if someone was still trying to hide whatever it was that happened to Sergeant Petrova.What we learn is that she is betrayed by someone in her own government to the Nazi’s. Stalin has sent her to assassinate a man that a high ranking Nazi spy can’t afford to have killed. So he betrays her and does his best to have her erased from the record books. This makes Bob and Kathy’s job much more difficult.I really enjoyed reading this book. There was a lot of good information about sniper’s and I learned a bit about the Russian sniper’s from WWII. I also enjoyed learning about some of the battles that happened on the Russian side against the Germans. Most history classes I’ve had focus on the Western European battles. I liked the story on both ends, and I thought it was very well written. It was certainly very engaging and I plan to be reading more Bob Lee Swagger books in the future!