Gideon's Torch

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A newly elected president must deal with a crisis that challenges his administration's agenda and changes the course of the nation. Full of insider information, this political thriller paints a believable picture of Washington's corridors of power with an alarming ring of truth.


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A newly elected president must deal with a crisis that challenges his administration's agenda and changes the course of the nation. Full of insider information, this political thriller paints a believable picture of Washington's corridors of power with an alarming ring of truth.


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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 Citystyle 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.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780849911460
  • Publisher: Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
  • Publication date: 8/1/1995
  • Pages: 544
  • Product dimensions: 6.47 (w) x 9.49 (h) x 1.77 (d)

Meet the Author

Ellen Vaughn is an award-winning author whose works include The Strand and Gideon's Torch, co-authored with Charles Colson. Former vice president of executive communications for Prison Fellowship, Vaughn has also served as a speech writer and fund-raising consultant. She and her husband, Lee, live in Virginia with their three children.

Well known for his dynamic leadership of Prison Fellowship Ministries, Charles Colson has become a highly regarded author, speaker, and columnist. He has written several best-selling books, including Born Again, A Dance with Deception, and How Now Shall We Live?.

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