Open season on humans

Tragedy struck in the final days of the Vietnam War. Donnie Fenn, a U.S. Marine, was killed by a sniper’s bullet, while his companion, Bob Swagger, was seriously wounded. Years passed. Bob married Julia, his fallen friend’s widow, and they raised their daughter, Nikki, on a ranch in the remote mountains of Idaho. Swagger’s greatest dream—to escape his agonizing past, forget what had been, and live a quiet life with his family—seemed to be coming true. But one ordinary day, Bob rode out from the ranch with Julia and Nikki. On a cliff above the mountain pass, a thousand yards away, a sharp-eyed, cold-blooded marksman—one of the finest snipers in the world—watched three approaching figures through a telescopic sight. From a bitter, almost forgotten past had returned Swagger’s mortal enemy, the man who had failed to kill him once...