I have read many books about the Kennedy assassination, and found Stephen Hunter’s telling from a sniper’s point of view an interesting perspective I hadn’t seen before. Hunter, a retired journalist and creator of the Bob Lee Swagger series, constructs a thought provoking scenario explaining how Lee Harvey Oswald was, in fact, a patsy for the real assassin. Hunter’s main character, Bob Lee Swagger, a decorated former marine sniper, thinks Oswald does not have the mental and physical skills to pull off the assassination. Swagger cites Oswald’s marine corps record and his history of failure at everything he attempts. Hunter goes to great lengths to show how it could have happened and I appreciate his expertise and effort to solve the crime of the century. While The Third Bullet is a work of fiction, Hunter sticks to agreed upon facts, and uses Vincent Bugliosi’s Reclaiming History and Gerald Posner’s Case Closed as guidelines in making his case.