Sniper By Starlight

By: Catriona Watson

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins

Publisher's summary

This is the story of Helen Wilkins, an expert horsewoman and shot, who is the widow of a U.S. Marine, and mother of a young girl. The reader learns how she is enlisted to form and train an elite sniper unit, mounted on Mustangs, to target terrorists in Afghanistan.

The first chapter details her last mission before being demobbed. Tensions begin when she and her spotter, Jimmy Johnson, have their future plans cancelled and are whisked back to the U.S. They have been chosen by a group of conspirators to assassinate a prominent, corrupt, and despotic politician. Not only does the operation test their conscience and threaten to destroy family ties, it proves to be more dangerous than they could ever have imagined. The intrigue develops as they train in secret and assume the persona of a woman and her special needs son on a tiny farm close to where the target is due to stay in a heavily guarded compound. Tensions build as they carefully plan and carry out their mission.

The plot is skillfully interwoven with scenes of the main conspirators and the aftermath of the assassination, followed by the escape of Nellie and her Spotter with new identities and locations.