Itxs not even a clue Itxs a whisper a trace a ghost echo drifting down through the decades via chance connections so fragile that they would disintegrate in the puff of a breath But itxs enough to get legendary former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger interested in the events of November and the third bullet that so decisively ended the life of John F Kennedy and set the stage for one of the most enduring controversies of our timeSwagger begins his slow night stalk through a much-traveled landscape But hexs asking questions that few have asked before Why did the third bullet explode Why did Lee Harvey Oswald about to become the most hunted man on earth risk it all by returning to his rooming house to secure a pistol he easily could have brought with him How could a conspiracy that went unpenetrated for fifty years have been thrown together in the two and a half days between the announcement of the presidentxs route and the assassination itselfAs Bob investigates another voice enters the narrative knowing ironic almost familiar that of a gifted Yale-educated veteran of the CIA Plans Division Hugh Meachum has secrets and the means and the will to keep them buried When weighed against his own legacy Swaggerxs life is an insignificant expense x but to blunt the threat hexll first have to ambush the sniperAs each man hunts the other across todayxs globe and through the thickets of history The Third Bullet builds to an explosive climax that will finally prove what Bob Lee Swagger has always known itxs never too late for justice.
