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begin at this stage of his life (1992), when he is approached by a clandestine organization who asks him to prevent the assassination of the
President by a highly trained sniper, who he is told is the same sniper who shot him and killed his spotter Donny. Bob Lee later finds himself framed as the
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Swagger was retired by the Marine Corps in 1975, suffering from a permanent disability due to the hip wound. He became an alcoholic to numb his depression, which resulted in the break-up of his second marriage to Susan, and he retreated to a hermitic existence on family land near Blue Eye.
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373:, was published in 2008. In this novel Swagger, now 63 years old, is trying to find out who ran his 24-year-old daughter Nikki off the road in an attempt on her life. Set in NASCAR country and centered around the big race at Bristol, the novel features Grumleys from Hunter's
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Arkansas. Bob and Nick Memphis uncover his secret work as an FBI agent during which he was involved in hunting down several famous bank robbers in the year 1934 as well as his downfall from success.
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496:, released in 2017, is the tenth novel in the series. It concerns a 71 year old Swagger attempting to uncover the history of his grandfather Charles Fitzgerald Swagger. Charles was a veteran of both the
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agent assigned to the case, and attorney Sam
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