When virtually all of the political and military leadership of Pakistan are wiped out by a terrorist attack at the inauguration ceremony of a new President, a race begins to seize control of the country's vulnerable cache of nuclear weapons. CIA agent Grant Stearns and the Team Six Navy SEALs are sent on a mission to secure the top secret Wah nuclear munitions center (near the infamous Osama Bin Laden compound in Abbottabad) and unlock the mysterious Chaklala Codes - the encrypted keys to Pakistan's nuclear weapons - before anyone else gets ahold of them. Stearns and his team are pitted...

HOYT HILSMAN is an award-winning writer, journalist and critic, and a former candidate for Congress in California. He has written screenplays for a number of studios and television networks, including Disney, Sony, New Line, ABC, NBC and CBS, and his stage plays and musicals have been produced in theaters around the country and abroad, and have won numerous awards. His television script, Foggy Bottom, based on his childhood in Washington, was honored at the Slamdance Festival. Mr. Hilsman has been a regular critic for Daily Variety, former President of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle,...

HOYT HILSMAN is an award-winning writer, journalist and critic, and a former candidate for Congress in California. He has written screenplays for a number of studios and television networks, including Disney, Sony, New Line, ABC, NBC and CBS, and his stage plays and musicals have been produced in theaters around the country and abroad, and have won numerous awards. His television script, Foggy Bottom, based on his childhood in Washington, was honored at the Slamdance Festival. Mr. Hilsman has been a regular critic for Daily Variety, former President of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle,...

BACK-CHANNEL is a political thriller, inspired by news reports of secret negotiations between Saddam Hussein's government and the Bush administration prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The story focuses on an American intelligence officer who is contacted by an Iraqi diplomat -- an old friend -- with an offer to negotiate. The official's life, both professional and personal, is thrown into danger when he reports the contact to the office of the Vice-President. BACK-CHANNEL, while a work of fiction, echoes many of the events that have come to light in the years since the invasion of Iraq.