- Hardcover: 720 pages
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0743204271
- ISBN-13: 978-0743204279
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.5 x 4.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (73 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Would Make a Good Movie!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Hot Springs (Mass Market Paperback)
Not as good as Point of Impact, but still a very good read and gets better as it motors along. Would make a good movie!
4.0 out of 5 stars
The way it was then.,
By Betty Burks "Betty Burks" (Knoxville, TN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hot Springs: A Novel (Hardcover)
This novel was a story of a place, a man, corruption in the forties USA (gangsters), movie stars and young misfits chosen for 'raids' on casinos in Hot Springs, Arkansas.Garrison Keillor made the remark while doing his radio program from Hot Springs that it is the buckle on the Bible Belt. Read this and find out why. I knew nothing about the gambling there. But, growing up poor in the South, I had no interest in throwing away money. Still don't. Mr. Hunter brings to life the many celebrities I've heard of who went there to entertain the rich and famous who gambled away the nights; I was shocked to learn that fellow Tennessean Dinah Shore was involved. She with the squeaky-clean image. He entertains and teaches us all about weapons, crime in the war years (did the Great Train Robbery actually take place there in the rail yard of Hot Springs?), and putting foolish young men in danger of rapid death. He brought to life the actual gangsters who were involved in forming the gambling industry in this country. I hope he goes on to reveal all the secrets of how Las Vegas was built; now that I know about the corrupt politicians who accepted payoffs in that hillbilly state, I want to learn more. Not that I will become a gambler. I'm too old for that.
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More of that great Swagger action!,
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This review is from: Hot Springs (Mass Market Paperback)
This book is a prequel to the novel ï¿Point of Impactï¿ which centered around Bobby Lee Swagger. ï¿Hot Springsï¿ instead focuses on Earl Swagger, Bobby Leeï¿s father. Earl Swagger has just returned from WWII where his valor in combat earned him the Medal of Honor. He returns to Arkansas where he grew up and tries to settle down with his young, beautiful and now pregnant wife and live a normal life. But the Swagger blood doesnï¿t appear to be able to thrive unless it is in peril and before long, Swagger is working for an Arkansas D.A. to build a fighting unit to wipe out crime in the gangster controlled gambling town of Hot Springs.Like all of the Swagger novels, this book is filled with great combat scenes and tactics as well as extensive details on firearms. Set in 1946, the novel also paints a very vivid portrait of vice and the power of gangsters to control a city or even a state. If you enjoyed the other Swagger (Bobby Lee) novels, this newest turn will not disappoint you. If you have never read a Stephen Hunter novel, welcome and get ready for a good old fashion good guys with guns versus bad guys with guns book you will enjoy.
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