A review by papidoc
The Day Before Midnight by Stephen Hunter

3.0

I wasn't sure how this novel would be, knowing that it did not feature Hunter's old friend, Bob Lee Swagger. In the end, it was a fine novel for escapist fiction, pretty much what I want from a novel. Like some other reviewers, I thought it was a bit too long and drawn out. It could have been tightened up a little, but probably not too much. On the other hand, I was unhappy with a few minor dangling threads. For example, I would have liked one last scene reuniting the welder with his kids. Also, Hunter's well-known expertise with firearms wasn't as front and center as in other novels he has written. On the whole, though, it was suspenseful, with plenty of action and relationship tension, and a decent way to while away the hours on a treadmill.