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—Phillip Margolin

“Only a handful of writers today can match Hunter for imagination and the ability to make a reader’s adrenaline rush.”

New York Daily News

“FILLED WITH DETAIL, CLEVER PLOTTING, SUSPENSE AND A HUNT TO THE DEATH THAT LEAVES THE READER DRY-MOUTHED WITH TENSION. Hunter knows his guns, and he writes about them with a precision that holds the attention of even a fervent anti-gun supporter.”

The Orlando Sentinel

“THE SUSPENSE IN BLACK LIGHT IS A KILLER … Hunter has created powerful criminal characters.”

Houston Chronicle

“ONE OF THE MOST SKILLED HANDS IN THE THRILLER BUSINESS. The plot is fast-paced, well-constructed and builds to a pulse-pounding night ambush … it should seal his reputation as an author who not only can write bestselling thrillers, but write them exceedingly well.”

Publishers Weekly

“CALL THIS ONE A MAN’S THRILLER.”

The New York Times Book Review

“HUNTER IS ONCE AGAIN AT THE TOP OF THE GENRE’S FORM … THE BEST STRAIGHT-UP THRILLER WRITER AT WORK TODAY.”

Rocky Mountain News

“[Hunter has] done for the rifle what Tom Clancy did for the nuclear submarine.”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“BLACK LIGHT IS A GREAT READ. THE PLOT IS AS STEALTHY AS A TRUE SNIPER.”

—Richard Marcinko

Also by Stephen Hunter

Pale Horse Coming

Hot Springs

Time to Hunt

Dirty White Boys

Point of Impact

The Day Before Midnight

Tapestry of Spies

The Second Saladin

The Master Sniper

Violent Screen: A Critic’s 13 Years

on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem

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Lyrics from “Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley and the Comets.

Copyright renewal 1982, Myers Music Corp. and Capano Music, Inc.

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Excerpt from “Mr. Mistoffelees” in Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, copyright 1939 by T. S. Eliot and renewed 1967 by Esme Valerie Eliot, reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace & Company and Faber & Faber Ltd.

All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Copyright © 1996 by Stephen Hunter

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