Stephen Hunter(V)

Hunter has published eight books about his character Bob Lee Swagger: Point of Impact, Black Light, Time to Hunt, The 47th Samurai, Night of Thunder, I, Sniper, Dead Zero, and The Third Bullet.

In addition, he has written three prequels focusing on Bob Lee's legendary father, Earl Swagger: Hot Springs, Pale Horse Coming, and Havana. Earl also makes a cameo appearance (in flashback) in Hunter's novel The 47th Samurai.

On the latest Bob Lee Swagger novel: "... The new book is a result of my well-documented... absorption in Samurai movie culture. It's called 'The 47th Samurai: A Bob Lee Swagger novel,' and it takes Bob to Japan in search of the sword his father recovered on Iwo that has gone missing under extremely violent circumstances. He finds himself matched against some totally bad but cool Yakuza killers and the action jumps all over Tokyo. It ends with what I had hoped to be (you guys will have to tell me if I brought it off) the coolest, most realistic one-on-one to the death sword fight in print."