Roy Exum: My Historical Fiction Sunday, April 4, 2021 - by Roy Exum Roy Exum One of the best fiction books ever written in my eyes was entitled “The Third Bullet” by the film critic of the Washington Post, Steven Hunter. It was written in 2013 and the hero, former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger – a totally fictitious guy – was called in to investigate one of the most enduring controversies of our time - the JFK assassination - in Dallas. The book is so good you can hardly put it down. I’ve read dozens of Hunter’s books – his writing style is influential (!) and while you know what you are reading is baloney, it is a bless-ed escape from reality.