Stephen Hunter - Sniper's Honor

Finally the publishing professionals—agent Esther Newberg, editor Sarah Knight, and publisher Jonathan Karp—oversaw and sustained the project; all manned up and did duties as required. And finally my wife, Jean Marbella, zeitgeist of Baltimore journalism, coffee- and martini-maker extraordinaire, and all-around best chum, provided a rest stop each night and a hot cuppa each morning. Couldn’t have made it to the end without ’em.

As usual, none of these fine people is responsible for errors in fact or spirit; I alone am the root cause.

STEPHEN HUNTERis the author of nineteen novels, including I, Sniper; Point of Impact; and The Third Bullet. In 2003, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism before retiring as chief film critic of The Washington Post.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hunter, Stephen.

Sniper’s honor : a Bob Lee Swagger novel / Stephen Hunter.

pages cm.

1. Swagger, Bob Lee (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Women in war—Soviet Union—History—Fiction. 3. Women soldiers—Soviet Union—History—Fiction. 4. Missing in action—Fiction. 5. Women journalists—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3558.U494S54 2014

813’.54—dc23

2013042081

ISBN 978-1-4516-4021-2

ISBN 978-1-4516-4026-7 (ebook)