Review submitted by Dave Silberstein
As thrillers go, Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter has to be an “11″ on a scale of 1-10.
Here’s the plot. A retired sniper, living in the Arkansas moutains by himself, is framed as the shooter who takes a shot at the President. The FBI and the Secret Service are after him, and they have him IDed at the site of the shooting, they have his rifle, and they have his notes on shooting sites where the Prez will be.
The guys who framed him are also after him because he knows who they are, and he just plain doesn’t have a friend in the world.
Given this scenario, the rest of the plot is all about how he gets out of this jam — because all along, you know he’s innocent!
But that’s the icing on the cake, folks: the cake itself — the truly masterful way in which the story is told — does nothing but define the thriller genre. Again on a scale of 1-10, I put plot at 9, characters at 9, pacing at 10, atmosphere at 11 … you get the idea.
And don’t forget: my 1-10 is a *log* scale.
Reviewer bio:
Dave aka bazillion is a professional used sound-effects salesman who makes his home in Los Angeles, a small fishing village on the US west coast. He reads voraciously and writes with a sense of style that can only be called “strange.”
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