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Pale Horse Coming: Earl Swagger, Book 2 (Original 2001; 2012. Auflage)

von Stephen Hunter (Autor), Eric G. Dove (Erzähler), Brilliance Audio (Publisher)

Reihen: Earl Swagger (2)

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Fiction. Thriller. HTML:Pale Horse Coming, featuring Stephen Hunter's beloved sniper heroes Earl and Bob Lee Swagger, the first Swagger thriller from the Pulitzer Prizeâ??winning author.
The time is 1951. A smooth-talking Chicago lawyer comes to chat with Sam Vincent, the former prosecutor of Polk County, Arkansas, about a dangerous subjectâ??a big prison for violent black convicts near Thebes, Mississippi, up the Yaxahatchee River from Pasagoula. Thebes seems to have dropped out of the Unionâ??letters and phone calls go unanswered, and the lawyer has questions that need answers. Would Samâ??an ex-lawman, a white man and a Southernerâ??agree to go up there and find out what he can?

The ex-prosecutor takes on the job, but first he goes to see his old friend Earl Swagger, and tells him that if he isn't back in a week, Earl is to come looking for him. When Sam vanishes into the mists and swamps around Thebes, Mississippi, Earl packs his gun, explains to a distraught Junie that duty is duty and a promise is a promise, and sets off for Thebes, Mississippi to track his friend down.

Soon enough, Earlâ??who approaches Thebes and its sinister prison with the stealth of a good Marine on a recon missionâ??realizes that something very strange indeed is going on there, that the prison is more than just a place that chills the blood of even the most hardened convict, that in fact the whole town of Thebes is hiding a secretâ??and it's a place where people disappear all too easily, particularly inquisitive strangers, for whom burial in the
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Titel:Pale Horse Coming: Earl Swagger, Book 2
Autoren:Stephen Hunter (Autor)
Weitere Autoren:Eric G. Dove (Erzähler), Brilliance Audio (Publisher)
Info:Brilliance Audio (2012)
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I liked it. The setup wasn't really credible at all, but the story drew me in anyway, entertaining throughout. ( )
  jercox | Jun 2, 2021 |
Fast paced action.

Not always believable but, entertaining. Kind of like an old cop or western shoot em up. A fast summer read. ( )
  StephenSnead | Dec 26, 2020 |
Great story with Earl Swagger going against all odds for survival. Once it gets rolling, you won't want to put it down. ( )
  phillipfrey | Apr 30, 2018 |
It's 1951, and the last place a man wishes to visit is Thebes State Penal Farm (colored) in Mississippi. Up a dark river, surrounded by swamps and impenetrable piney woods, it's the Old South at its most brutal. but in that year, two men will come to Thebes, first is Sam Vincent, the former prosecuting attorney of Polk County, Arkansas. Second is earl Swagger, a Marine hero on Iwo Jima and now a sergeant of the Arkansas State Police. ( )
  Gatorhater | Jun 26, 2013 |
Stephen Hunter's "Pale Horse Coming" starts out with a bang, and the author builds suspense as Earl Swagger saves his buddy but endures torture like no man should. But the end of the book is strangely anti-climatic, lacking suspense. Swagger gains his revenge too easily.

I love Hunter's books, especially "Point of Impact." But this one petered out at the end. ( )
  Stevejm51 | Jul 30, 2009 |
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Fiction. Thriller. HTML:Pale Horse Coming, featuring Stephen Hunter's beloved sniper heroes Earl and Bob Lee Swagger, the first Swagger thriller from the Pulitzer Prizeâ??winning author.
The time is 1951. A smooth-talking Chicago lawyer comes to chat with Sam Vincent, the former prosecutor of Polk County, Arkansas, about a dangerous subjectâ??a big prison for violent black convicts near Thebes, Mississippi, up the Yaxahatchee River from Pasagoula. Thebes seems to have dropped out of the Unionâ??letters and phone calls go unanswered, and the lawyer has questions that need answers. Would Samâ??an ex-lawman, a white man and a Southernerâ??agree to go up there and find out what he can?

The ex-prosecutor takes on the job, but first he goes to see his old friend Earl Swagger, and tells him that if he isn't back in a week, Earl is to come looking for him. When Sam vanishes into the mists and swamps around Thebes, Mississippi, Earl packs his gun, explains to a distraught Junie that duty is duty and a promise is a promise, and sets off for Thebes, Mississippi to track his friend down.

Soon enough, Earlâ??who approaches Thebes and its sinister prison with the stealth of a good Marine on a recon missionâ??realizes that something very strange indeed is going on there, that the prison is more than just a place that chills the blood of even the most hardened convict, that in fact the whole town of Thebes is hiding a secretâ??and it's a place where people disappear all too easily, particularly inquisitive strangers, for whom burial in the

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