The killer lies in wait, silently watching as a man and his family ride horses under the Idaho sun. Suddenly the shot rings out. a woman screams. Horse hooves thunder. And Bob Lee Swagger is jolted by a sound he knows all too well. Once he has the Marine Corps' most freared sniper. Now Swagger--husband, father, hero--is fighting to protect his wife and daughter . . . from the one shooter in the world who is as good as he is.

Four famed '60s radicals are gunned down at long range by a sniper. Under enormous media scrutiny, the FBI quickly concludes that Marine war hero Carl Hitchcock, whose ninety-three kills were considered the leading body count tally among American marksman in Vietnam, was the shooter. But as the Bureau, led by Special Agent Nick Memphis, bears down, Hitchcock commits suicide. In closing out the investigation, Nick discovers a case made in heaven: everything...