Stephen Hunter returns—and with him returns Bob Lee Swagger, who now must track down a missing Marine Corps sniper. Unexpectedly, he has surfaced again on the horizon and continues carrying out his last assignment. Ray Cruz, nicknamed by his fellow soldiers “the Winged Missile” because he never misses, is still hunting a field commander—his current American ally in the Afghanistan war and an important figure in a larger political game. Is Ray acting on his own, has he gone insane, or has he switched sides to the enemy? Or is someone pretending to be Ray in order to pursue even deeper goals? Working as part of an operational group created to intercept Ray Cruz before he carries out what he has planned, Bob Lee Swagger has to sort it out—despite the fact that somewhere deep inside, he is on the runnin’ sniper’s side.