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Night Of Thunder by Stephen Hunter

It is not a good idea to cross Bob Lee Swagger and especially to put his daughter’s life at stake. Journalist Nikki Swagger had been investigating reports of a crystal meth superlab in Tennessee and the southern conspiracy that surrounds it when she was forced off the road and into a collision that leaves her in a coma.

Bob Lee Swagger is worried. As a former Marine Corps sniper, he has picked up more than his fair share of enemies and can sense that something isn’t right with the official explanation given by police that Nikki’s accident was caused by a local kid high on meth. He picks up the investigation where his daughter has left off and he uncovers a conspiracy bubbling with all the angst, resentment and dysfunction that Dixie gangsters can muster.

He uncovers an ancient, violent crime clan, possibly corrupt law enforcement structure, deranged evangelicals and gunmen of all stripes and shapes as he tries to find an answer to his daughter’s accident and let his own swift sword of justice strike down those responsible. They will rue the day they crossed the wrong man’s daughter in a very bad career move. All this is set against the insanity and excitement of a weeklong NASCAR event which has woken the sleepy town of Bristol temporarily out of its slumber.

Swagger is a true American hero, gritty and not afraid to take action in the name of justice. In this novel, he comes up against plenty of action and a diabolical and engaging villain, Brother Richard, the self decreed ‘Sinnerman’ out of the old fire-and-brimstone tradition and certainly not your ordinary assassin. Night of Thunder draws readers into a fast paced, high octane thriller from the very first page.

RRP $40.00
Published and distributed by Penguin Group under the Simon and Schuster title.

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