What Fiction are you reading this week, October 19, 2025?

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6. I read The Gun Man Jackson Swagger by Stephen Hunter.

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This is the 21st entry in the Swagger family series of books. (12 for former marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, 4 for his Medal of Honor winner father Earl, 2 for his Arkansas sheriff grandfather Charles, and two for his Army sniper son Ray Cruz.)

Jackson would be Bob Lee’s great- great grandfather. The first born of the Swagger men have an unnatural skill with guns; amazing accuracy with rifles and unbelievable speed with handguns. This one is set in an Arizona railroad town awash in vice in 1897. Jackson has a very personal reason for being there.

It only took two days to read, so I tried Hunter’s one nonfiction book, American Gunfight, about the attempted assassination of Harry Truman in 1950. I couldn’t make it through the recitation of 75 year old Puerto Rican revolutionary politics, so I read Michael J. Fox’s Future Boy, about the making of Back to the Future at night, at the same time he was doing Family Ties during the day. It was so engaging (and short) I finished it in one day.

Now I need to find something to tide me over until the new Reacher book comes out next month.