The Gelwick Faxes: An Eyewitness Account of the Senate Hostage Crisis

WARNING: THIS BOOK CAN BE EXPLOSIVE. Senators have always lived in fear of being the next terrorist target. But never did they suspect they would be staring down the gun barels of US Army officers. Colonel Christine Davis has taken seventy-five of them hostage at a symposium. She is setting up the C-SPAN cameras for a live broadcast to America. She wants to rouse an American electorate frustrated with a lack of voice in Washington. The FBI thinks the program is much too strong for the TV viewing audience and shuts it down, while censoring all media coverage.

Allan Gelwick is a reporter caught with the Senators. He emails his newspaper about the uninvited guests, who let him continue to report uninterrupted. They need his coverage. His laptop becomes the focal point of negotiations with the FBI and communications with covert operatives on the inside as they maneuver into striking position. It is up to him to navigate events as they lurch through this deadly mine field.