It is the spring of 1945, and the Nazis areeliminating all the witnesses to their horrible crimes,including Jews and foreigners remaining in theprison camps. Kommandant Repp, who is known as amaster sniper, decides to hone his sniping abilitiesby taking a little target practice at theremaining laborers in his own prison camp. But one manescapes and becomes the key to solving the mysteryof the cold, calculating Kommandmant Repp and hisplans for ending the war.

Repp wasthe master sniper whose deadly talent had come tothe notice of British Intelligence as the linchpinof a desperate Nazi plot to reverse the fortunesof the Third Reich at the eleventh hour. But whatwas the nature of the weapon that Repp was toaim--and who was to be his last target? AlliedIntelligence officers Leets, from the U.S., andOuthwaite from England are dispatched to identify andabort his lethal mission. And when they finallylearn the truth, the Second World War's deadliestrace against time is on....