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Summary: Has a certain appeal in the genre
Review: 'The Master Sniper' is a finely crafted novel, a very compelling tale much in the style of recent gems like "The Triumph and the Glory" or "Black Notice", or even books of a more techno-thriller bent like "The Devil's Teardrop." Four stars!
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Summary: Never in the History of World War II books....
Review: ...have I read a more brain-damaging "Novel". The jacket said that it is Mr. Huntere's first book; it should be his very last.The garbage just piles up. The Waffen SS division Nibelungen is in places they never were, there is an underground installation in a mountain where (in this particular area) no mountain exists - and this had repercussions in the unfolding tale. The allegedly German words and titles clearly never say a German speaking editor, and: Mr. Hunter, where, oh where did you get the hare-brained idea of a Sturmgewehr 44 shooting pure lead bullets? And how did the non-existing tribe of Nibelungs like to live underwater, as dwarves at that?? Oh my! I rue the time wasted reading this utter tripe; it would have been better spent looking at a moronic sitcom on the boob tube. The only reason I gave it one star is the fact that amazon.com does not let me give the book none.
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Summary: This book does not hold up to his other works.
Review: After having read "Point of Impact", "Dirty White Boys" and "Black Light", I was disappointed with this title. The characterization is lacking--I found the "bad guy" more interesting than heroes. The target of the master sniper seems a little hard to believe. There were portions of the book (such as the tennis sequence) that left me thinking "why was that in the story?". If anyone reads this novel and is disappointed, they should give the Bob Lee stories a chance.
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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: After reading "Point of Impact," I was really excited about diving into this Hunter work about a German soldier, Repp, skilled in long range shooting, who is on a dangerous mission and has in his possession a very dangerous state of the art weapon to fulfill it.
The book gets a little confusing because there are so many German towns, phrases, organizations, etc that it becomes hard to keep track of them througout the reading. Also, the romantic scene between the hero who hunts down Repp, Leets, and a nurse becomes more distracting and really has no relevance to the story. The action scenes were quite entertaining, however, and the book was hard to put down in the last 100 pages.
It was a decent book but I think I'll stick with the "Swagger" series from now on.
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Summary: Not bad...Point of Impact was better
Review: Although this was a good read, I would have to say that Point of Impact was better. Nevertheless, Stephen Hunter seems to prove his fiction skills once again.
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Summary: Like a bad dream
Review: Because i bought the book, i forced myself to read it through. Tedious would be one word for it. Set in a romantic time, running concurrent with perhaps the movie Casablanca, it fails to capture the feel of the 1940's. There are no likeable characters; the bad guys are not unlikeable and you don't care whether or not the sniper gets his mark or not. The author has researched his weapons quite well from what i've read. I know. But it doesn't carry the novel. Nothing in it does.
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Summary: Great book!
Review: Good Thriller! I have read all Hunter's books and the quality remains high. Unusual for a modern thriller writer. He creates great characters in all his novels. A real can't-put-it-downer!
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Summary: Peripheral necessities of war identify a fanatic mission
Review: Hunter has set up an interesting novel here. There is so much that is implied and not explained. Anthony and Leets representing S.O.E. and O.S.S. do what Intelligence agents do, they analyze information, trying to glean something vital from the mass. They find something unusual and must convince, not only each other, but someone with the power to do something about it.The book shows how both the U.S. and U.K., while allied, still had their own interests. The aloof Brit with the stiff upper lip is revealed. Leets, not a Yale or Harvard man, must deal with his own position in OSS as well as being an American dominated by his British counterpart. The kid (his name escapes me)the golden boy, sitting out the war but glorying in what it can get him. Oh yeah, and the NAZI. Repp as the SS soldier. Not warrior, but Soldier. A good portrayal of what the SS and Nazi politicians were. Shmuel was as tragic as the camps themselves.The fact that a final act of contempt being the murder of twenty four children should give the reader some insight as to just what the Nazis were all about. Money just like what they were after in this novel has been sitting in Swiss banks for nearly sixty years, benefitting who knows. Lastly, I liked how the last days of the war were dealt with, the attacking Americans, the retreating Wermacht, the last ditch stands and brutality of the SS. Like the book itself, the war slammed to a halt.
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Summary: Gripping page turner
Review: Hunter's best work. AN intricate page turner that had me spellbound from page one. A must read
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Summary: ho hum
Review: I am a huge fan of the swagger series (both earl and bob) and i was really let down by this book. the writing was trite, the characters lifeless, the ending stupid and predictible, the story-line unrealistic. hunter's forte certainly is not ww2....it is puzzling to me that a man who can write books as good as pale horse coming and point of impact, wrote this mediocre fluff.
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