While still in the midst of legal trouble from their last mission, LCDRs Judah Wakefield and David Rivers, a Naval Intel profiler and a Navy SEAL happily pair up again, this time to hunt down a world-class sniper who has been hired to take out the US president on a European goodwill stopover. When they have to resort to hiring the hitman themselves to draw him-or her-into the open, one of them was already a target, being set up for treason.