The 47th Samurai by Stephen Hunter

[Taltarzac]

Liked this book which I just finished. http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews2/9780743238090.asp

[larrydube]

Tal,

Stephen Hunter is a fantastic story teller. I have read many of his books starting with "Dirty White Boys", "Master Sniper" "Point of Impact" which was made into a movie with Mark Wahlberg and was called The Shooter. Fantastic movie based loosely on the book.

Thanks for telling us about this new book. I will be sure to go out and get it.

Larry

[Taltarzac]

Tal,

Stephen Hunter is a fantastic story teller. I have read many of his books starting with "Dirty White Boys", "Master Sniper" "Point of Impact" which was made into a movie with Mark Wahlberg and was called The Shooter. Fantastic movie based loosely on the book.

Thanks for telling us about this new book. I will be sure to go out and get it.

Larry


You are welcome. He has a new one coming out in September 2008. It is another Bob Swagger book called Night of Thunder. http://www.amazon.com/Night-Thunder-Bob-Swagger-Novel/dp/other-editions/1416565116

[Lil Dancer]

Thanks, sounds good. I like books that take place in other cultures - its always a learning experience.

[Taltarzac]

Thanks, sounds good. I like books that take place in other cultures - its always a learning experience.


Stephen Hunter sure goes a lot into the history of Japanese swords as well as into samurai legends and Japanese movies about samurai. He is a film critic so he probably has seen many movies.

[Taltarzac]

You are welcome. He has a new one coming out in September 2008. It is another Bob Swagger book called Night of Thunder. http://www.amazon.com/Night-Thunder-Bob-Swagger-Novel/dp/other-editions/1416565116

If you are familiar with Bob the Nailer books by Stephen Hunter, you should like this book. There were a few paragraphes that I had to read a few times to make any sense of, but other than that this is a fun read.

If you are not familiar with Bob the Nailer, there is a movie about this character and one of the novels about his adventures called Shooter. Some of the background of Bob the Nailer has been updated in the movie from the book. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822854/

[Taltarzac]

Looks like there is a sixth book featured Bob Lee Swagger coming out in October 2009. It will be called I, Sniper.