In 1968, Vietnam, Gary Mitchell caught the eye of his superiors, who found that he excelled at long-distance shooting.This discovery set him on the path to a new identity as a sniper. During his time in Vietnam, American intelligence agents |borrowed| him from his Army unit and used him to carry out planned assassinations, most likely as part of the covert Phoenix Program. But this is not just a story of a man at war, it's also about the war within the man, because the memories of his sniper missions followed him home and nearly destroyed him.