Tania joins the fight for Russia after she travels to Minsk in hopes of rescuing her grandparents, only to watch them die at the hands of the Germans. Stalingrad also harbors a pair of lovers, as Zaitsev conducts a passionate affair with fellow sniper Tania Chernova, the headstrong daughter of New York-dwelling Russian immigrants. The beleaguered city itself becomes a character in the struggle as Zaitsev and Thorvald attempt to outmaneuver one another. Zaitsev and his students have so much success against the Nazis that the Germans deploy a master sniper of their own, SS Colonel Heinz Thorvald (aka ""The Headmaster""), to assassinate Zaitsev and turn the tide in the battle for Stalingrad. His proficiency as a marksman attracts considerable attention from both sides, starting when his Russian bosses put him in charge of a ""sniper school"" to supplement the front-line soldiers. Vasily Zaitsev is ""The Hare,"" a hunter from the Ural Mountains with deadly skills as a chief master sergeant in the Red Army.
Set in the rubble of Stalingrad during WWII, Robbins's second novel hinges on a dramatic mano a mano confrontation between a Russian sniper and his German counterpart during a pivotal stretch of the historic 1942 siege.
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