Hi, dear teachers! I came across the phrase in Dan Brown's novel Angels and Demons and I don't konw what it means. The quotation goes like this:
Does it mean Langdon had a good view of the killer? Or somthing else? Thanks in advance.
“Langdon felt an uneasy premonition. Had the Hassassin arrived early?Had he come in a van? Langdon had imaged the killer escorting his last victim across the piazza on foot, like he had at St. Peter's, giving Langdon an open shot. But if the Hassassin had arrived in a van, the rule had just changed.”
An "open shot" or "clear shot" means that there was nothing in the way to stop a bullet aimed at a target.
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He does not want to shoot the victim, other bystanders, or a lamppost, so he is looking for an open shot.
In that phrase, Landon is the one who is shooting.