Description:A lone, crazed sniper
starts shooting at random from the Shelley Hotel, dead opposite the US
Embassy. The first victim dies at the foot of the Roosevelt monument.
The rifleman then breaks into a bedroom and takes the couple there as
hostages. Because of the US Embassy, police response is quick and
massive and the book becomes a battle of wits with the sniper (who
demands to see the American ambassador) as police and security services
try to discover who he is and what he wants