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In 1993 the award-winning author Stephen Hunter wrote a novel Point of Impact. It is based on a true story about a Vietnam sniper and Marine Corps legend Carlos Hathcock, nicknamed Carl Hitchcock.

Bob Lee Swagger, one of the world s great marksmen and the son of a Congressional Medal of Honoree, is a loner living in the Rockies. He s left the military, having been hung out to dry in a secret Ethiopian mission a few years before, when he s recruited by a lisping colonel to help find a way that the President of the US might be assassinated in one of three cities in the next two weeks.