When a reporter investigating "mountain sprawl" is shot dead, a small-town Colorado deputy and former Army sniper must catch a ruthless sharpshooter who is locked, loaded, and ready to kill again.

Sheriff Bill Tatum, a former Army sniper, scours the four-thousand-acre Halfmoon Ranch in Mineral County, Colorado, for the killer of a corrupt councilman, an investigation that unearths a wealth of suspects, including Tatum's deputy, who is the victim's son. Original.