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In the middle of the worst hostage crisis in the history of
the Pacific Northwest, Stratton SWAT sniper Ben Geller
comes to suspect his teammate, fellow sniper Bob Slater,
of being one of two unacceptable things: at best, a
monumental screw-up, or at worst, a cold-blooded
murderer. After the bizarre hostage siege comes to a
mysterious end, Geller finds he must place his career, his
sanity, and finally, his very life on the line in trying to
determine which.
In the game of cat-and-mouse that follows, second place
isn't just the first loser; second place is dead. Still, Geller is
willing to put his life on the line to bring the truth to light.
But soon he finds himself in way over his head when the
stakes are raised to include the lives of his wife and
children, in yet another hostage siege in which they are
the hostages.

In this final conflict, the only clear lines between good guy
and bad guy are the crosshairs of the scope through which
one sniper takes aim at the other...

Sniper Shot

Barry Ozeroff has been a police officer for eighteen years,
working first for the city of La Mesa in Southern California,
and for the last twelve years in the Pacific Northwest in
Gresham, Oregon. In early 1994, he joined the SWAT
tactical unit of Gresham SERT (Special Emergency
Response Team) and served as the team’s primary sniper
from 1996 to 1999.

He left the tactical unit in 1999, and later joined the Crisis
Negotiation Unit, where he currently serves as the team’s
lead hostage negotiator.

In addition to his SERT and patrol duties, Barry is also a
departmental Public Information Officer (spokesman). As
such, he writes press releases, conducts interviews on
television, radio, and in the newspaper, and deals with the
media during major incidents. He is also a part of the Crisis
Intervention Team, which deals with the mentally ill in crisis.

While he was on SWAT, he also served four years as a
High School Resource Officer in several middle schools
and high schools.

The Gresham Police Department currently has 115
sworn officers and a total of 159 full-time employees. It
provides 24-hour police service to approximately 93,000
people and covers 22.5 square miles. The city is divided
into 6 primary patrol districts.

The department is divided into the following three divisions:

The Management Services Division handles Training
and Recruiting, Code Enforcement, Records,
Communications, and Fiscal and Budget management.

The Field Operations Division includes Patrol, as well
as specialty assignments such as Traffic Enforcement,
Special Emergency Response Team (S.E.R.T.), Explosive
Ordnance Disposal (E.O.D.), Canine, Tri-Met Police, and
Gang Enforcement. Our traffic officers respond to major
accidents in East Multnomah County as part of the
multi-agency Vehicular Crimes Team. Volunteers from the
Gresham Police Reserve Unit and the Gresham Police
Explorer Post support the Field Operations Division.

The Investigations Division is responsible for the
investigation and successful prosecution of crimes, and
the processing of crime scenes. Some officers are
assigned to multi-agency units such as the Regional
Organized Crime and Narcotics taskforce (R.O.C.N.), the
Multnomah County Special Investigations Unit (S.I.U.), and
the Multnomah County Multidisciplinary Child Abuse Team
(C.A.T.). Some of our detectives respond to major crimes
in East Multnomah County as part of the multi-agency
Major Crimes Team (M.C.T.), and they assist in the
investigation of outside-agency officer-involved shootings.

Coordinating these divisions is the responsibility of our
Administration Section. This section of the department
includes the Chief of Police and her support staff.

Gresham, Oregon Police Department