While ultimately convicted of the murder of Dr Bernard Slepian, in Buffalo, New York, it was the shooting in Canada three years earlier of an abortion doctor that brought the then unknown James Kopp instant notoriety as a criminal suspect. Part detective story, part psychological drama, Sniper tells the fascinating, often harrowing story of how the Canadian police and FBI eventually caught Kopp after an intense 3 year international serach. It also sheds light on how this son of a Marine, an avowed celibate with loyaltise to the etus, became an anti-abortion radical and finally a killer - in the name of human life.
