Set over a long weekend in East Anglia, Blake Morrisons new novel is the chilling story of a rivalrous friendship - as told with deceptive casualness by the narrator, Ian. It opens with a surprise phone call from an old university friend, inviting Ian and his wife, Em, for a few days by the sea. Their hosts, Ollie and Daisy, are a golden couple, and the scene is set for sunlit relaxation. But dangerous tensions quickly emerge. In taut, lucid prose, with flashes of wit and moments of troubling uncertainty, Blake Morrison perfectly conveys the stifling atmosphere of a remote cottage in the hottest days of summer. Ominous revelations from Ians past slowly intrude. And his rivalry with Ollie intensifies as they resurrect a seemingly forgotten bet made twenty years before. Each day becomes a series of challenges for higher and higher stakes, setting in train actions that will have irreversible consequences.
影片根據(jù)“英國悚小說天王”李德的小說《完美犯》改編。六發(fā)彈，五名死者，秘槍手在鬧市區(qū)造了一起慘案讓個城市都陷入了慌。所有的證據(jù)指向了前軍隊狙手詹姆斯·巴爾約瑟夫·斯科拉 Joseph Sikora 飾）。但他堅持自己清白并要求把老識 杰克· 理查爾（湯姆·克魯 Tom Cruise 飾）找來，兩人曾同在軍中服役。隨著杰調查的深入，他現(xiàn)了更大的謎團炮制這場慘案的兇似乎另有其人而別有用心的幕黑手抓走了巴爾 ，只留下杰克一探明真相。六發(fā)彈中有一發(fā)漏空子彈是殺手故意空的。為了了解擊手的工作，杰特意來到了狙擊的訓練營找到了個叫做薩繆爾·什（羅伯特·杜爾 Robert Duvall 飾）的教練。在什和巴爾妹妹以律師的幫助下，克漸漸走進了事的中心位置，一關于蘇聯(lián)改造營俄羅斯黑幫的秘也慢慢浮出水面?
