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Hunter's Game
Sniper Elite Worlds (Related to this series)
- Author
- Simon Bestwick
- Narrator
- Dan John Miller
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 14 July 2026
- Run Time
- 5 hours 37 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Who will win Hunter's Game?
1865, Texas. The American Civil War is over but a final pocket of defiance remains. Despite the recent surrender of General Lee, a secret plan is hatched for the Texan insurgents to receive a last shipment of deadly munitions that could spell ruin for the Union forces facing them.
Major Sparanero, of the Union, uses one of his undercover agents to discover that the weapons are being sent by train. There will only be one chance to prevent the munitions being put into the field—as the train crosses the fragile bridge over Tophet Gorge. Before his capture the undercover agent sets a bomb beneath the train and marks it for a sharpshooter.
Hunter—a disillusioned deserter—is the only one skilled enough to make that shot. Bribed by Sparanero to return one final time, Hunter is charged with destroying the train. But an enemy colonel with whom Hunter has history discovers the mission, and so begins a deadly game of hide and seek …
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Details
- Author
- Simon Bestwick
- Narrator
- Dan John Miller
- Duration
- 5 hours 37 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 July 2026
- ISBN
- 9798898850982
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- War, combat and military adventure fiction, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
Who will win Hunter's Game? 1865, Texas. The American Civil War is over but a final pocket of defiance remains. Despite the recent surrender of General Lee, a secret plan is hatched for the Texan insurgents to receive a last shipment of deadly munitions that could spell ruin for the Union forces facing them. Major Sparanero, of the Union, uses one of his undercover agents to discover that the weapons are being sent by train. There will only be one chance to prevent the munitions being put into the field—as the train crosses the fragile bridge over Tophet Gorge. Before his capture the undercover agent sets a bomb beneath the train and marks it for a sharpshooter. Hunter—a disillusioned deserter—is the only one skilled enough to make that shot. Bribed by Sparanero to return one final time, Hunter is charged with destroying the train. But an enemy colonel with whom Hunter has history discovers the mission, and so begins a deadly game of hide and seek …
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