You Shoot" (2001). Hunter is a firearms enthusiast, well known in the gun community for firearm detail in many of his works of fiction. He himself shoots as a hobby, saying "many people don't understand, shooting a firearm is a sensual pleasure that's rewarding in and of itself." In an interview with NPR on February 16, 2011, in relation to the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others, Hunter defended the public availability of high-capacity magazines. He also said that it was not clear if the 33-round magazine used by shooter Jared Lee Loughner played a part in the shooting. He had previously stated in his op-ed piece in The Washington Post that extended magazines are particularly valuable for the self-defense of women and the elderly, who he said could use them effectively as an alternative to semi-automatic rifles or shotguns. He points out that "women generally don't care to put in the training needed to master [rifles and shotguns]. Nor can the elderly handle [long guns] adeptly." Works Novels Bob Lee Swagger series: Point of Impact (1993) 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) Targeted (2022) Dirty White Boys (1994), prequel to events in Black Light Earl Swagger series: Hot Springs (2000) Pale Horse Coming (2001) Havana (2003) The Bullet Garden (January 24, 2023) Ray Cruz series: Dead Zero (2010) Soft Target (2011) Stand-alones: The Master Sniper (1980) The Second Saladin (1982) Target (1985), novelization of film Target The Spanish Gambit (reissued as Tapestry of Spies) (1985) The Day Before Midnight (1989) I, Ripper (2015) Basil's War (2021) Short stories "Casey at the Bat" (2010) (in Agents of Treachery, edited by Otto Penzler) Non-fiction Violent Screen: A Critic's 13 Years on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem (1996) Now Playing at the Valencia: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays on Movies (2005) American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman and the Shoot-out that Stopped It (2005) with John Bainbridge, Jr., References 1946 births Living people Writers from Kansas City, Missouri American film critics Pulitzer Prize for Criticism winners American crime fiction writers American thriller writers 20th-century American novelists The Baltimore Sun people The Washington Post people United States Army soldiers Medill School of Journalism alumni Writers from Baltimore 21st-century American novelists American male novelists