A reclusive hitter known only as Cowboy, completes an arduous string of hits, but leaves one witness behind that twenty years later threatens to expose his crimes.

SYNOPSIS:

The Professor, after a lifetime of training the most talented killers for the U.S. Government and suffering financially for it, puts together a pension plan for himself and his recruits, the elite of the elite. The plan is simple: contract hits for the criminal underworld and the government using the best-trained killers on the planet with the cooperation and cover of other former students in the CIA, FBI and later the DHS to distract and derail any investigations into the Professor’s activities. Everyone wins, but the target.

In 1986, Cowboy is one of the Professor’s best hitters. He’s a former SEAL, meticulous in his preparation, isolated in his private life, except for a cat named Wilber (a cat who cannot rat) with whom he has intense and confrontational conversations about the state of Country Music in 1986. Together, they are about to embark on a final mission of 6 hits in 4 states in 25 hours, part of which the FBI will be investigating in 2006.

In 2006, Janie Cisco is a gung-ho FBI agent obsessed with the legend of the hitman called Cowboy. Decades have passed without yielding evidence to Cowboy’s identity or linking him to any of the crime scenes. The only knowledge that Cowboy exists is through testimony in several court cases.

That is, until 2006 when Dexter Jackson, a street-smart thug who knows how to use information to get out of a jam needs a plea bargain. Dexter has been sitting on his ability to identify Cowboy for twenty years and only the rumor of his death allows Dexter to play the long-held card.

The resource-limited Cisco enlists the help of her ex-boyfriend Agent Cody Evers and Blake Whittington, (LAPD) working one of Cowboy’s cold cases, into her obsession. Whittington is a dedicated father and soccer dad, who has the Cowboy investigation land in his lap when Dexter Jackson, looking for a two-for-one, offers Cowboy up to Whittington to abate some state charges as well.

The combination of the gung-ho Cisco and the laid-back Whittington, the FBI versus the LAPD, the anal retentive and the pension-seeker create a dynamic that is both tense and amusing as they attempt to work the case together.

The action begins with Cowboy, by then in his 40's, with a wife and a fourteen-year-old daughter when he gets news that there is a renewed investigation into his now almost forgotten past. Cowboy returns to find the Professor, now in his 80’s and suffering from Alzheimer’s, has turned the operation over to a man called Steele.

Steele is a computer whiz, logistics expert and disillusioned veteran of Afghanistan. Steele runs a high-tech, modern operation and the renewed investigation threatens to expose it, so he has put an asset in play. When Cowboy, a low-tech hitter, insists he deal with Dexter himself, Steele cautions him that if he fails, the organization will be forced to eliminate Dexter and Cowboy to end the investigation.