STEPHEN HUNTER spent two years in the United States Army and since 1971 has been on the staff of the Baltimore Sun, where he is now the film critic. He is the author of nine other novels, including Dirty White Boys, Point of Impact, The Master Sniper, and Tapestry of Spies, and the nonfiction book Violent Screen: A Critic’s 13 Years on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem. He is the father of two children and lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
HIGH PRAISE FOR STEPHEN HUNTER’S BLACK LIGHT
“NOBODY WRITES ACTION BETTER THAN STEPHEN HUNTER AND BLACK LIGHT IS ONE OF HIS BEST … [THE] ACTION SCENES PLAY LIKE A MOVIE, THE PLOT IS INTRIGUING AND THE WRITING IS TOP-NOTCH.”
—Phillip Margolin “Only a handful of writers today can match Hunter for imagination and the ability to make a reader’s adrenaline rush.”
—New York Daily News “FILLED WITH DETAIL, CLEVER PLOTTING, SUSPENSE AND A HUNT TO THE DEATH THAT LEAVES THE READER DRY-MOUTHED WITH TENSION. Hunter knows his guns, and he writes about them with a precision that holds the attention of even a fervent anti-gun supporter.”
—The Orlando Sentinel “THE SUSPENSE IN BLACK LIGHT IS A KILLER … Hunter has created powerful criminal characters.”
—Houston Chronicle “ONE OF THE MOST SKILLED HANDS IN THE THRILLER BUSINESS. The plot is fast-paced, well-constructed and builds to a pulse-pounding night ambush … it should seal his reputation as an author who not only can write bestselling thrillers, but write them exceedingly well.”
—Publishers Weekly “CALL THIS ONE A MAN’S THRILLER.”
—The New York Times Book Review “HUNTER IS ONCE AGAIN AT THE TOP OF THE GENRE’S FORM … THE BEST STRAIGHT-UP THRILLER WRITER AT WORK TODAY.”
—Rocky Mountain News “[Hunter has] done for the rifle what Tom Clancy did for the nuclear submarine.”
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch “BLACK LIGHT IS A GREAT READ. THE PLOT IS AS STEALTHY AS A TRUE SNIPER.”
—Richard Marcinko FICTION
Pale Horse Coming
Hot Springs
Time to Hunt
Dirty White Boys
Point of Impact
The Day Before Midnight
Tapestry of Spies
The Second Saladin
The Master Sniper
NONFICTION
Violent Screen: A Critic’s 13 Years
on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem
Published by Dell Publishing a division of Random House, Inc. 1540 Broadway New York, New York 10036 Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously copyrighted material:
Lyrics from “Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley and the Comets.
Copyright renewal 1982, Myers Music Corp. and Capano Music, Inc.
All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission.
Excerpt from “Mr. Mistoffelees” in Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, copyright 1939 by T. S. Eliot and renewed 1967 by Esme Valerie Eliot, reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace & Company and Faber & Faber Ltd.
All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Copyright © 1996 by Stephen Hunter 
