The long-anticipated origin story of legendary Marine, fan favorite, and father of literary icon Bob Lee takes us to the battlefields of World War II as Earl Swagger embarks on a top secret and deadly missionāfrom Pulitzer Prizeāwinning and New York Times bestselling Stephen Hunter, āone of the best thriller novelists aroundā (The Washington Post).
July, 1944: The lush, rolling hills of Normandy are dotted with a new featureāGerman snipers. From their vantage points, they pick off hundreds of Allied soldiers every day, bringing the D-Day invasion to its knees. Itās clear that someone is tipping off these snipers with the locations of American GIs, but who? And how?
General Eisenhower demands his intelligence service to find the best shot in the Allied military to counter this deadly SS operation. Enter Pacific hero Earl Swagger, assigned this crucial and bloody mission. With crosshairs on his back, Swagger canāt trust anyone as he infiltrates the shadowy corners of London and France for answers.
From āa true master at the pinnacle of his craftā (Jack Carr, author of the Terminal List series), The Bullet Garden is an electrifying historical thriller that is sure to become a classic.