Book Review: The Bullet Garden: Stephen Hunter’s WWII Thriller Digs into Snipers, Spies, and the Swagger Legacy

Picture this: It’s 1944. Normandy’s hedgerows are thick with summer growth, and the air hums with the kind of silence that comes right before a bullet splits it in two. The Allies have clawed their way into France after D-Day, but there’s a problem—German snipers are picking off U.S. officers with eerie, almost supernatural accuracy. Enter Earl Swagger, the broad-shouldered, sharp-minded Marine hero of Stephen Hunter’s The Bullet Garden….