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Titre original Black light 1996

Bob Lee Swagger est un héros. Il tire et fait mouche à tous les coups. Sans doute tient-il cela de son père, Earl Swagger, flic émérite, abattu lors d'une fusillade en 1955. Quarante ans plus tard, un écrivain vient débusquer Bob Lee, reclus en Arizona, pour faire la lumière sur la mort de son père. Bob Lee reprend du service. Retour à Blue Eye, Arkansas. Il faut déterrer les cadavres. A commencer par celui d'une jeune Noire découvert par Earl quelques heures avant sa propre fin. Bob Lee Swagger, ancien tireur d'élite du Vietnam, héros de Romeo Dog (Shooter), a le regard aussi froid qu'une lunette infrarouge. Il s'attaque au mystère d'une affaire personnelle classée. A ses trousses, les fantômes du passé et leurs fils bien vivants, homme politique ou mafieux. Les ténèbres appartiennent au tireur qui voit dans le noir.

" Il n'y a que Stephen Hunter pour inventer des types avec des flingues comme ça. Lumière Noire est un roman sensationnel. " Elmore Leonard

Black Light is the second book in the Bob Lee Swagger series, by Stephen Hunter.

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There are two interconnected plots that unfold simultaneously in this novel; one is set in the present, and deals with Bob Lee Swagger and Russ Pewtie, while the other is set in 1955, and deals with Bob Lee's father, Earl, and the events leading up to his death.

This book catches the reader up with Bob Lee about five years after the events in Point of Impact. He now has a daughter who is four years old, named Nikki, and he has married Julie Fenn, the widow of his fallen spotter, Donnie Fenn. He is living happily, if not humbly, in Arizona, trying to avoid the notoriety he gained during the events in Point of Impact.

A young man approaches him with a proposition. This young man's name is Russ Pewtie, the grown son of Bud Pewtie, who as described in Dirty White Boys was responsible for the death of Lamar Pye. Russ is a writer, and wants to write a book about Bob Lee's father Earl, a Marine Corps veteran and State Policeman who was supposedly gunned down one night in 1955, near Bob's home town of Blue Eye, Arkansas, by Lamar's father, Jimmy who was to surrender to Earl after robbing a grocery store and killing four people.

As Russ and Bob Lee probe into the details surrounding Earl's death, there are some startling revelations, including a conspiracy to keep these details hidden, which give deeper insight into the history of Bob Lee. Bob Lee uses his knowledge of firearms, sniping and military history to unravel conflicting details about the shooting of his father and find out the real reason his father was killed as well as finding out the identity of the real shooter.