Jason Mac Lane has become a new director of the Mayflower Foundation. To prove his legitimacy to the members of the Foundation and its president, Janet Sheridan-Fitzsimmons, Mac Lane is invited to carry out a very long distance shooting test: he must hit a target at 2,132 meters! Why this sniper test? Will he shoot someone? How will he do at the fateful moment to maintain his credibility with the Foundation without becoming a murderer? He knows that he will have to save time because, in the shadow of the news, the Foundation places slowly but certainly its pawns to seize power in the United States. In order to ensure the discretion of their company, the Foundation's leaders know that they must get hold of the historical documents that prove his malfeasance... and are still held by XIII.