Pale Horse Coming

—Providence Journal Bulletin

NEW YORK TIMES
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
STEPHEN HUNTER

“One of our finest practitioners of the classic blood-soaked and propulsive American thriller.”

—
The Washington Post

“One of the best storytellers of his generation.”

—
San Francisco Examiner

“The best writer of straight-out thrillers working today.”

—
Rocky Mountain News

“Passes almost everybody else in the thriller-writing trade as if they were standing still.”

—
Daily News
(New York)

“Genius.”

—
Booklist

Praise for Stephen Hunter’s latest explosive
tale featuring Bob Lee Swagger,
THE 47TH SAMURAI

“The novel Hunter’s fans have been waiting for.”

—
Booklist
(starred review)

“Hunter is a great entertainer…. With fluid, confident prose, he writes big stories of a man, mostly alone, who must go forth for us all and slay the dragon.”

—
The Washington Post

“Hunter writes [fight scenes] as well as, or better than, anyone in the business…. I have only one major problem: He doesn’t write often enough.”

—Otto Penzler,
The New York Sun

“Riveting homage to the myth of the samurai…. While the action builds to the inevitable climax, the joy of the journey will keep readers turning the pages.”

—
Publishers Weekly

And I beheld a pale horse: and his name
that sat on him was Death, and Hell
followed with him…

Praise for
PALE HORSE COMING

“Hunter is Robert B. Parker on steroids. Mickey Spillane with a thesaurus. He writes crime like no one before him.”

—
The Denver Post

“Virtually un-put-downable gothic chiller.”

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Publishers Weekly

“Classic hard-boiled fiction…. Features some of Hunter’s best writing.”

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The Washington Post Book World

“Grippingly told and hauntingly described.”

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The Toronto Sun

“A top-notch thriller…. Cements Hunter’s status as the best thriller writer going today. Maybe ever.”

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Providence Journal Bulletin

“An amazing roller coaster of a ride…. Exciting and entertaining.”

—
Times Record News
(Wichita Falls, TX)

“[Hunter’s] blunt writing style hits you like the burst of a Thompson gun…. More than a cut above the usual shoot-’em-up thriller…. Gripping.”

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The News & Record
(Greensboro, NC)

“Stunning…. Vivid and horrific.”

—
St. Petersburg Times
(FL)

Night of Thunder

The 47th Samurai

Havana

Pale Horse Coming

Hot Springs

Time to Hunt

Black Light

Dirty White Boys

Point of Impact

Violent Screen: A Critic’s 13 Years on
the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem

Target

The Day Before Midnight

The Spanish Gambit (Tapestry of Spies)

The Second Saladin

The Master Sniper

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Copyright © 2001 by Stephen Hunter

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At last, for Jean

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

—J
OSEPH
C
ONRAD

 

The human target element always stimulates interest.

—E
D
M
C
G
IVERN

 

…and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.

—R
EVELATION
6:8