Bob Lee Swagger, the master sniper from the Hollywood blockbuster Shooter starring Mark Wahlberg, is back! When a man is shot and the woman accompanying him is critically wounded in the mountains of Idaho, war veteran Bob Lee Swagger is confronted by his past. It seems the shooter is actually targeting him. The search for answers brings painful memories of his deployments in Vietnam to the surface. Is the mysterious Russian Solaratov behind it, who hunted him back then? What role do his own wife Julie and her ex-fiancé Donny play, for whose death on the front Bob feels personally responsible? In the context of the US peace movement, Bob uncovers a conspiracy that severely tests his trust in the American military establishment.