Mark Wahlberg's underrated action movie with a controversial ending is rising on the streaming charts 18 years later.

Bob Lee Swagger has been portrayed by Mark Wahlberg in “Shooter,” a 2007 film based on Stephen Hunter’s 1993 thriller “Point of Impact,” and by Ryan Phillippe in the “Shooter” TV series.

Black Light By Stephen Hunter Doubleday, 463 pages, $23.95 `Black Light” marks the triumphant return of a changed Bob Lee Swagger, hero of Baltimore author Stephen Hunter’s explosive “Point ...

As the novelist tells it, the decision to enlist his fictitious super-sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, to determine whether the gunman acted alone or as part of a conspiracy began as a joke.

Now Hunter goes back to 1946 and introduces Earl Swagger, Bob Lee's father, in "Hot Springs" (Simon & Schuster, $25, 474 pages). A survivor of the war in the Pacific, Earl is haunted by the memory ...

Night of Thunder: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel Stephen Hunter, . . Simon & Schuster, $26 (290pp) ISBN 978-1-4165-6511-6 ...

“I need you to plan a presidential assassination,” U.S. intelligence honcho Isaac Johnson (Danny Glover) tells ex-Marine Gunnery Sgt. and all-round super sniper Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg).