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Bob Lee Swagger Books in Order

12 books from Point of Impact (1993) to Targeted (2022). Rated 4.4 across 10,167 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Point of Impact

    Book 1 1993 4.1 (1.4k)

    . . a distrubing mix that plays on our sense of history while at the same time it appeals to our darkest fantasies of rough justice.”—Chicago Tribune The inspiration for the USA Network series Shooter He was one the best Marine snipers...

  2. Black Light

    Book 2 1996 4.7 (881)

    Only one thing stands between a son and his father's killer: forty years of lies. . . On a remote Arizona ranch, a man who has known loss, fear, and war weeps for the first time since he was a child.

  3. Time to Hunt

    Book 3 1998 4.7 (707)

    Time to Hunt is as vivid and haunting as a moving target in the crosshairs of a sniper scope.”—Nelson Demille, author of Mayday He is the most dangerous man alive. He only wants to live in peace with his family, and forget the war that...

  4. The 47th Samurai

    Book 4 2007 4.4 (817)

    Bob Lee Swagger and Philip Yano are bound together by a single moment at Iwo Jima, 1945, when their fathers, two brave fighters on opposite sides, met in the bloody and chaotic battle for the island. Only Earl Swagger survived.

  5. Night of Thunder

    Book 5 2008 4.4 (636)

    New York Times best-selling author Stephen Hunter returns with his most riveting Bob Lee Swagger volume to date. The stakes are high - and personal - because this time, Swagger's daughter's life is at stake.

  6. I, Sniper

    Book 6 2009 4.2 (1.5k)

    Four famed '60s radicals are gunned down at long range by a sniper. Under enormous media scrutiny, the FBI quickly concludes that Marine war hero Carl Hitchcock, whose 93 kills were considered the leading body count tally among American…

  7. Dead Zero

    Book 7 2010 4.5 (763)

    Who killed Whiskey 2-2? And why won’t it stay dead? A marine sniper team on a mission in tribal territories on the Afghan-Pakistan border, Whiskey 2-2 is ambushed by professionals using the latest high-tech shooting gear.

  8. The Third Bullet

    Book 8 2013 4.2 (742)

    It’s not even a clue. It’s a whisper, a trace, a ghost echo, drifting down through the decades via chance connections so fragile that they would disintegrate in the puff of a breath.

  9. Sniper's Honor

    Book 9 2014 4.4 (566)

    In this tour de force - part historical thriller, part modern adventure - from the New York Times best-selling author of I, Sniper, Bob Lee Swagger uncovers why WWII’s greatest sniper was erased from history…and why her disappearance still…

  10. G-Man

    Book 10 2017 4.7 (766)

    From bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winner Stephen Hunter, the latest episode in his Swagger family saga - replete with Hunter's wicked suspense, vivid gun fights, and historical truths.

  11. Game of Snipers

    Book 11 2019 4.7 (935)

    Greaney, New York Times Bestselling Author of Mission Critical In this blazing new thriller from Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter, master sniper Bob Lee Swagger takes on his biggest job to date...and confronts an assassin with...

  12. Targeted

    Book 12 2022 4.4 (510)

    Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times best-selling author Stephen Hunter returns with a taut, white-knuckled thriller featuring master sniper Bob Lee Swagger as he protects a group of political hostages during a perilous standoff and…

Adapted for screen

  • Shooter TV series · USA Network · 2016–2018 · 3 seasons

About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Bob Lee Swagger is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.