New York Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter returns with his popular hero Bob Lee Swagger fighting to clear the name of a fellow soldier-in-arms and facing off against one of his most ruthless adversaries yet - a sniper whose keen intellect and pinpoint accuracy rivals his own. Four famed '60s radicals are gunned down, including the wife of a media mogul. Nick Memphis, FBI Assistant Director, suspects that retired Marine sniper, Carl Hitchcock, holder of the record number of kills in Vietnam, may be responsible. As they close in, Hitchcock's apparent suicide further cements his case, but Memphis calls on Bob Lee Swagger to poke holes in his case. As Swagger digs deeper it's clear that things are more complicated than they initially seemed. As Swagger starts to unravel the tangled web of connections surrounding the murders, he gets closer to uncovering who's responsible and finds his days may be numbered.