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<p>List of the best Stephen Hunter books, ranked by voracious readers in the Ranker community. With commercial success and critical acclaim, there's no doubt that Stephen Hunter is one of the most popular authors of the last 100 years. He is best known for is many excellent thriller novels. If you're a huge fan of his work, then vote on your favorite novels below and make your opinion count. This poll is also a great resource for new fans of Stephen Hunter who want to know which novels they should start reading first. With memorable characters and excellent storytelling, there's no reason why you shouldn't check out his work if you're a big reader. </p>The list below includes <span class="edS-i">Havana, The 47th Samurai</span>, and more books. What are Stephen Hunter's best novels? Vote on this list and help us definitively answer that question.

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I, Sniper

I, Sniper is a book written by Stephen Hunter.

Point of Impact

Point of Impact is a 1993 thriller novel by award-winning author Stephen Hunter.

Time to Hunt

Time to Hunt is a 1999 thriller novel, and the third in the Bob Lee Swagger series by Stephen Hunter. In narrative sequence it is preceded by Point of Impact and Black Light.

The 47th Samurai

The 47th Samurai is a 2007 thriller novel, and the fourth in the Bob Lee Swagger series by Stephen Hunter. In narrative sequence it is preceded by Point of Impact, Black Light, and Time to Hunt.

Day Before Midnight

Hot Springs: A Novel

Hot Springs is a fictional work by Stephen Hunter, published in 2000.
Hot Springs is a novel telling about gangsters and gambling in U.S. city Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is the first novel in the series featuring Hunter's character Earl Swagger.
It is summer 1946 and Earl Swagger, former Marine and recipient of the Medal of Honor, feels he is an angry man with nowhere to go in the post-war peace. But then he joins a new war, the one against organized crime, and in this hellish crucible rediscovers his courageous true self.

Pale Horse Coming

Pale Horse Coming is a novel by Stephen Hunter published in 2001. It is his second book in the series featuring the character of Earl Swagger.

American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill President Truman - and the Shoot-out That Stopped It

American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill President Truman - and the Shoot-out That Stopped It is a book by Stephen Hunter and John Bainbridge Jr.

Black Light

Black Light is the second book in the Bob Lee Swagger series, by Stephen Hunter.

The Second Saladin

Tapestry of Spies

The Master Sniper

Dirty White Boys

Dirty White Boys is a novel by American author Stephen Hunter. It covers the escape of convict Lamar Pye and two accomplices from a penitentiary in the mid-western USA, and highway patrol officer Bud Pewtie's attempts to track them down.
The events in the novel are set in between Point of Impact and Black Light, the first and second novels in the Bob Lee Swagger series.

Night of Thunder

Night of Thunder is a 2008 thriller novel, and the fifth in the Bob Lee Swagger series by Stephen Hunter.

Havana

Havana is a novel by the author Stephen Hunter. The third novel in the Earl Swagger series, it was released by Simon & Schuster in 2003. The story is set in Cuba during the emergence of Fidel Castro.
Earl Swagger is recruited as a personal bodyguard for an Arkansas politician who is visiting Havana, Cuba. Swagger is met by Frenchy Short who is now a CIA intelligence officer in Cuba and is coerced into a black bag operation to assassinate Castro. Along comes an unnamed former inmate from the Gulag to help the young Castro with wisdom and encouragement for the Communist interests.
After the historical attack on the military barracks in the failed attempt by Castro to take over the country, Swagger is put on the trail. He tracks and finds his target only to abandon the mission due to the shady nature of his former subordinate. Left to fend for himself in a country that no longer tolerates Americans, Swagger must evade and survive to return home to his wife June and son Bob Lee.
Swagger is given a safe haven by a Havana prostitute whose life he saved.

List of the best Stephen Hunter books, ranked by voracious readers in the Ranker community. With commercial success and critical acclaim, there's no doubt ...