What the summer months often require is a good, old-fashioned read. Whether you’re traveling to your latest vacation, lounging on the beach underneath the sun, or relaxing in your backyard with a cold drink, the companionship of a good yarn can be just what you need.

Here’s a keen look at five new and upcoming books you may want to consider picking up this summer.

“G-Man,” by Stephen Hunter. Marine Vietnam veteran Bob Lee Swagger has been through nine novels of adventures, and this is his 10th. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Hunter has put more of the Swagger clan under the microscope by writing spinoffs about both Swagger’s son and his World War II vet father.

“G-Man” follows Swagger — an old man who is far from his younger, slicker television self on USA Network’s “Shooter” — as he discovers more about his grandfather, a character only briefly mentioned in previous books.

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Swagger discovers a box of puzzling memorabilia when he decides to sell the family homestead. The items belonged to his grandfather; and as he begins to dig into his granddaddy’s adventures in capturing 1930s Prohibition-era gangsters such as Baby Face Nelson, Swagger begins to suspect he may be unraveling a bigger conspiracy than he imagined.

In recent years, Hunter has turned to more historical events. He took on the case of Jack the Ripper in 2015’s “I, Ripper” and the JFK assassination in “The Third Bullet,” in 2013. His unique and extensive knowledge about firearms makes his research stand out from anything else on the market today. As always, he has a quick and visual eye for action and characters we can’t let go of, long after we’ve closed a Hunter tale.

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