The explosive New York Times bestseller by Stephen Hunter that sends ex-Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger into the thick of an FBI investigation and features some of the greatest gunfights ever to grace the page.
It takes a seasoned killer. . .
Four famed '60s radicals are gunned down at long range by a sniper. All the evidence timeline, ballistics, forensics, motive, means, and opportunity points to Marine war hero Carl Hitchcock. Even his suicide. The case is almost too perfect.
. . . to hunt one.
Recruited by the FBI to examine the data, retired Marine sharpshooter Bob Lee Swagger penetrates the new technology of the secretive sniper world to unravel a sophisticated conspiracy run by his most ruthless adversary yet a marksman whose keen intellect and pinpoint accuracy rival his own. But when the enemy and his deadly henchmen mistake Bob for the hunted, it's clear that some situations call for a good man with a gun. . . and the guts to use it.
