Hot Springs is a 2000 thriller novel by Stephen Hunter. It is about gangsters and gambling in Hot Springs, Arkansas . It is the first novel in the series featuring Hunter's character Earl Swagger.

Jun 27, 2000 · Now he's about to face his biggest, bloodiest challenge yet. It is the summer of 1946, organized crimes garish golden age, when American justice seems to have gone to seed for good. Nowhere is this more true than in Hot Springs, …

Jul 19, 2024 · Hot Springs is a novel written by Stephen Hunter and published by Simon & Schuster in 2000, with a paperback edition released the following year. The tough-guy thriller centers on the violent world of gangsters and gambling in postwar Hot Springs (Garland County).

Sep 10, 2013 · It is the summer of 1946, organized crime’s garish golden age, when American justice seems to have gone to seed for good. Nowhere is this truer than in Hot Springs, Arkansas, the reigning capital of corruption. When the district attorney vows to bring down the mob, Earl is recruited to run the show.

Apr 26, 2022 · It is the summer of 1946, organized crime’s garish golden age, when American justice seems to have gone to seed for good. Nowhere is this truer than in Hot Springs, Arkansas, the reigning capital of corruption. When the district attorney vows to bring down the mob, Earl is recruited to run the show.

Jun 24, 2011 · Hot springs : a novel by Hunter, Stephen, 1946-Publication date 2000 Topics Swagger, Bob Lee (Fictitious character), World War, 1939-1945, Gangsters Publisher New York : Simon & Schuster Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size

Earl Swagger, a fierce, highly decorated WWII Pacific theater warrior, is a man haunted by the horrors of war, as well as by the abuse he suffered as a child at the hands of his brutal father.

Jul 26, 2011 · The undisputed master of the tough thriller, New York Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter delivers a masterpiece of crime fiction set in 1940s Arkansas, where law and corruption ricochet...

Jul 3, 2000 · It's the summer of 1946, and Hot Springs, Arkansas, is under the thumb of gangster Owney Maddox, who has a dream: he wants to refashion Hot Springs into an oasis of sin, a place where Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, Bugsy Siegel, et al., will feel safe, comfortable, and cosseted. He’s halfway there.