Gideon's Torch

Charles Colson; Ellen Vaughn

ISBN 10: 084991146X / ISBN 13: 9780849911460

Published by W Pub Group (edition First Edition), 1995

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The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gideon's Torch
• Publisher: W Pub Group (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 084991146X
• ISBN 13: 9780849911460
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

Attorney General Emily Gineen must deal with the chaos decending upon Washington, as the new administration of President J. Whitney Griswold copes with a controversial murder, a TV network hijacking, a terrorist bomb, and the emergence of new underground networks formed by ordinary citizens

Reviews

Charles Colson, of course, was a special counsel for President Nixon, and served a stretch in a federal prison for his part in the Watergate cover-up. Nowadays, he's deeply involved in prison ministries. Gideon's Torch is his and coauthor Vaughn's first novel, a political tale steeped in the details of the White House, the Justice Department, and the K Street maneuverings of those seeking power. As Republican president J. Whitney Lowell takes office, a woman walks into a North Dakota abortion clinic and kills a doctor. Watching the polls, Lowell decides to crack down on every antiabortion group nationwide, whether violent or peaceful, and a civil liberties debate quickly erupts. Before Lowell's tactics can produce a killer, another group steals a National Institute of Health training video containing shots of a brutal third-trimester abortion and manages to uplink the video to the evening news. And before these terrorists can be apprehended, another group stages an Oklahoma City^-style bombing on the first of the sinister-seeming Regeneration Centers, which will use fetuses in AIDS research. They botch their escape and are killed, leaving government prosecutors no case except against an alleged accessory, a Maryland preacher named Daniel Seaton. Seaton's courtroom testimony and death in prison are linked to the tribulations of St. Paul and give the novel a certain mournful elegance. Colson and Vaughn present every warring faction fairly; the portraits of the president and attorney general are particularly sensitive, and the suicide of Lowell's chief adviser is quite movingly done. John Mort