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Bob Lee Swagger Books in Order

Stephen Hunter has written 12 books featuring Bob Lee Swagger, published between 1993 and 2022. The first book is Point of Impact (1993) and the newest is Targeted (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
12
Published
1993–2022
Confirmed
12 of 12 titles
Pages on record
4,177 in 9 of 12 books
Reading time
70–104 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,177 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 9 of 12 titles with a page count on record.

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Bob Lee Swagger is Stephen Hunter's Marine sniper, at the centre of a thriller series about marksmanship, revenge and military investigation. Point of Impact (1993) opens the run, with Black Light, Time to Hunt, The 47th Samurai, Night of Thunder, I, Sniper and Dead Zero following. Ray Cruz joins the wider Swaggerverse, which gathers 12 books to Targeted in 2022. Entries are long, at a median of 485 pages.

How many Bob Lee Swagger books are there?

Bob Lee Swagger appears in 12 books, released between 1993 and 2022.

Bob Lee Swagger Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 12 Bob Lee Swagger books in the order they were released, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter, book 1 of the Swaggerverse series (1993)
  2. Cover of Black Light by Stephen Hunter, book 2 of the Swaggerverse series (1996)
  3. Cover of The 47th Samurai by Stephen Hunter, book 4 of the Swaggerverse series (2007)
  4. Cover of Night of Thunder by Stephen Hunter, book 5 of the Swaggerverse series (2008)
  5. Cover of I, Sniper by Stephen Hunter, book 6 of the Swaggerverse series (2009)
  6. Cover of The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter, book 8 of the Swaggerverse series (2013)
  7. Cover of Sniper's Honor by Stephen Hunter, book 9 of the Swaggerverse series (2014)
  1. 1
    Point of ImpactSwaggerverse #11993 · 528 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1993528
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  2. 2
    Black LightSwaggerverse #21996 · 515 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1996515
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  3. 3
    Time to HuntSwaggerverse #31998 · 596 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1998596
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  4. 4
    The 47th SamuraiSwaggerverse #42007 · 372 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2007372
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  5. 5
    Night of ThunderSwaggerverse #52008 · 290 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2008290
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  6. 6
    I, SniperSwaggerverse #62009 · confirmed 3/4
    2009–
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  7. 7
    Dead ZeroSwaggerverse #72010 · 528 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2010528
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  8. 8
    The Third BulletSwaggerverse #82013 · 485 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2013485
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  9. 9
    Sniper's HonorSwaggerverse #92014 · 416 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2014416
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  10. 10
    G-ManSwaggerverse #102017 · 447 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2017447
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  11. 11
    Game of SnipersSwaggerverse #112019 · confirmed 3/4
    2019–
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  12. 12
    TargetedSwaggerverse #122022 · confirmed 3/4
    2022–
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Bob Lee Swagger Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Bob Lee Swagger books run from Point of Impact (1993) to Targeted (2022), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Bob Lee Swagger in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Bob Lee Swagger books in order?

You should read the Bob Lee Swagger books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Bob Lee Swagger book also stands alone.

What order should you read Bob Lee Swagger books in?

Read them in publication order, starting with Point of Impact (1993), the earliest published title. After it come Black Light (1996), Time to Hunt (1998), The 47th Samurai (2007), Night of Thunder (2008), I, Sniper (2009), Dead Zero (2010), The Third Bullet (2013), Sniper's Honor (2014), G-Man (2017), Game of Snipers (2019) and Targeted (2022).

What is the newest Bob Lee Swagger book?

Targeted (2022) is the newest Bob Lee Swagger book released so far.

Is there a new Bob Lee Swagger book coming?

No next Bob Lee Swagger book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Bob Lee Swagger at a glance

Paused
No new Bob Lee Swagger title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Bob Lee Swagger books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
4,177 pages across the 9 of 12 books with a recorded length, a median of 485 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Bob Lee Swagger books, 5 of 12, were published in the 2010s.

What the Bob Lee Swagger books are about

10 of the 12 Bob Lee Swagger books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: swagger, bob lee (fictitious character) is tagged on 6 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Stephen Hunter

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.