{"id":1046,"date":"2013-03-20T07:46:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T14:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2013-03-20T07:46:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T14:46:47","slug":"guns-mean-guys-and-other-lethal-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/?p=1046","title":{"rendered":"Guns, mean guys and other lethal weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Moyer is back, again, from wherever it is he’s been, again. I can’t keep up with his globe-trotting ways. I’m just grateful that he keeps reading and writing reviews. Here’s his latest, with his promises that there are more to come.<\/p>\n

By Robert Moyer<\/p>\n

THE THIRD BULLET. By Stephen Hunter.\u00a0Simon and Schuster. 485 pages. $26.99.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This book comes loaded with weapons, guns like Glock 19, M-1 Garand, short-barreled AK-47, C-96 Mauser, .264 Winchester Magnum and the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle.\u00a0A number of these guns were used or could have been used in the Kennedy assassination.\u00a0 \u201cCould have been\u201d is the key phrase here; without contradicting any of the facts in the Warren Report on the assassination, Stephen Hunter has constructed an intricate case for what happened to The Third Bullet<\/em> that did so much damage, but left a lot of questions.<\/p>\n

Another lethal weapon in the book is Bob Lee Swagger, aka \u201cBob the Nailer,\u201d a Vietnam-era sniper who first appeared in another assassination-plot novel by Hunter, Point Of Impact<\/em>.\u00a0 The CIA tried to make a patsy out of Bob Lee, but he pulled a fast one and got the CIA agent to take a bullet, and the fall, instead.\u00a0 He\u2019s retired now, but a woman whose husband was killed by a hit-and-run driver thinks the death had something to do with the Kennedy assassination.\u00a0Bob Lee doesn\u2019t pay attention until she hands him a coat found in the Dal-Tex building across from the Book Depository on Dealey Plaza in Dallas \u2013 the smell of gun-cleaning fluid and a tire track on the coat make him take the case immediately.\u00a0He knows whose coat it is.<\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t know about the other weapon that\u2019s doing all the damage.\u00a0 That\u2019s an ex-CIA operative who \u201cdied\u201d years ago, and doesn\u2019t show up here for 192 pages. He starts his memoir when Swagger starts looking for him.\u00a0 The agent, Hugh Meachum, knows the coat was a loose end. He has quickly and literally killed off any attention called to the Dal-Tex building, and he tries to take out Bob Lee.\u00a0 He can\u2019t do it, because Bob Lee may be old, but he\u2019s mean.<\/p>\n

As Swagger sorts out all the clues, the agent spells out the saga of how a shooter besides Oswald had a shot, why Oswald was there in the first place, and the system that set Kennedy up for the kill.\u00a0The author carefully constructs the premise, carrying the readers through some intricate reasoning without losing them.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Bob Lee sorts out who the agent was, and then sets out to find out who he is and where he is now.\u00a0 The\u00a0two narrative lines come together with a lot of guns and tough guys in a giant conflagration all aimed at stopping Bob Lee.<\/p>\n

Hunter has turned out a book that makes you turn pages faster than usual, so the book seems much shorter than its 485 pages.\u00a0 If, like the many people who put this book on the best-seller lists, you find yourself still fascinated by conspiracy theories, you may like this one.\u00a0 Go ahead.\u00a0 Take a shot at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob Moyer is back, again, from wherever it is he’s been, again. I can’t keep up with his globe-trotting ways. I’m just grateful that he keeps reading and writing reviews. Here’s his latest, with his promises that there are more to come. By Robert Moyer THE THIRD BULLET. By Stephen Hunter.\u00a0Simon and Schuster. 485 pages. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[408,409,407,410],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thriller-suspense","tag-bob-lee-swagger","tag-kennedy-conspiracy","tag-stephen-hunter","tag-thrillers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}