Top-ranked sniper Kyle Swanson was a
promising young Marine on a dangerous peace-keeping mission in
Mogadishu, Somalia when he first captured 'the Cobra', and it could have
cost him his life - had it not been for the schoolteacher who risked
her own to save him.
Now Swanson is sent on a mission to track down two targets: one is
the Cobra, the warlord who spent twenty years imprisoned after Swanson
captured him and is now back in charge of the Somali underworld, vowing
vengeance on the Marine; the other is the grandson of the schoolteacher
who once saved his life, who has joined the Cobra's army of terror. The
boy had been swept up in a Detroit-based Somali gang before fleeing back
to the protection of the Cobra. His grandmother swears he's innocent,
but the CIA tells Kyle to kill him.To find the truth and accomplish his
mission, Swanson must return to the one place he had hoped he'd never
see again - where the Cobra lies in wait. ‘Stunning action, excellent
tradecraft…just about perfect.’- Lee Child