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| quote: Originally posted by hudr: I nominate the daycare shootout from Tom Clancy’s “Executive Orders”
This same scene popped into my head before I even clicked on the link.
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| Haven't read it in a while, but I seem to remember that there was a good one in "Gorky Park." |
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| "Dead Man's Walk" (one of the prequels to "Lonesome Dove") had a good one between Call (and Gus) and Buffalo Hump. It was the reason the Comanche called Call Gun-in-the-Water.
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| The "Prey" series by John Sanford has good gun stuff. And his books about that fuckin Flowers.
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| quote: Originally posted by YooperSigs: The "Prey" series by John Sanford has good gun stuff. And his books about that fuckin Flowers.
The shootout with the DEA and the meth producers in Dark of the Moon was good. |
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| It's been too long since I read them to recall specific scenes, but early Stephen Hunter had some good ones. In particular, "Hot Springs" comes to mind.
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| quote: Originally posted by RichN: It's been too long since I read them to recall specific scenes, but early Stephen Hunter had some good ones. In particular, "Hot Springs"....
IIRC, there are good gunfights in just about everything Hunter has written. This includes books featuring Bob Lee Swagger or his father Earl. Plus a few with neither character; "The Day Before Midnight" and "Dirty White Boys" are two that come to mind. |
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| quote: Originally posted by Sigmund: IIRC, there are good gunfights in just about everything Hunter has written. This includes books featuring Bob Lee Swagger or his father Earl. Plus a few with neither character; "The Day Before Midnight" and "Dirty White Boys" are two that come to mind.
In one of the later books he gave into some sensationalism when Ray Cruz gets shot with a .50 BMG and it throws his body something like 30 feet.
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| Guns, Bullets, and Gunfights Jim Cirillo's Tales of the Stakeout Squad
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre.
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| quote: Originally posted by RichN:
In one of the later books he gave into some sensationalism when Ray Cruz gets shot with a .50 BMG and it throws his body something like 30 feet.
Ray Cruz, a blast from the past. He was the lead in the very short book where bad guys attack Mall of America. I thought he would replace Bob Lee, but that now appears unlikely even though Bob will soon be using a walker. |
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| No love for Mack Bolan?
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre.
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| Rainbow six and Without Remorse from Clancy are good but its been a minute since I've read them. I've been doing alot of non ficton lately so its hard to come up with too much. |
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"The deals you miss don’t hurt you”-B.D. Raney Sr.
| quote: Originally posted by mr kablammo: No love for Mack Bolan?
Mack was the original Punisher.... |
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| then there's the prevention of shootouts...
The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes
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| quote: Originally posted by jhe888: "Dead Man's Walk" (one of the prequels to "Lonesome Dove") had a good one between Call (and Gus) and Buffalo Hump. It was the reason the Comanche called Call Gun-in-the-Water.
^^^^^^^ Best reading I've had , from many years ago. Many a night sitting up reading all those Westerns, when I should have gone to bed, getting up at 5 am wasn't easy.
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