Over The Line: (INVISIBLE HANDS OVER THE PEOPLE’S HOUSE)

By Washington Toe

A single mother in Washington, D.C. loses her only son to gun violence and decides to go undercover to investigate corrupt U.S. Congressmen who take bribes from gun manufacturers to prevent gun control legislation from passing.

Synopsis
DEBORAH GONZALEZ HENDERSON works as a member of the security detail for U.S. Senator EDWARD JOHNSON, whom she accompanies on frequent travels to Canada to meet with executives of Superb Metals Inc., a company that owns a mine in Mexico. Superb Metals supplies chromium to U.S. gun companies for weapons manufacturing. After SENATOR JOHNSON and several of his colleagues oppose gun control bills in the Senate, DEBORAH suspects they are accepting bribes in return for their influence in Congress. When her son JASON is killed by a deranged shooter at the grocery store, and SENATOR JOHNSON opposes new gun control legislation, DEBORAH decides to tell a reporter what she knows about SENATOR JOHNSON’S dealings with Superb Metals and U.S. gun manufacturers. Before she can do so, she is kidnapped and held hostage at Superb Metals’ mining compound in Mexico. While there, she learns that her close friend and former colleague, CHRISTOPHER COLLINS, another member of SENATOR JOHNSON’S security detail, has been killed.
DEBORAH manages to escape from the mine and is rescued by members of Las Zetas cartel, former owners of the mine, who are actively fighting to regain control of it from Superb Metals. At a high-end dance club in Chihuahua city several nights later, she uses her military training to kill intruders and save members of Las Zetas, who own the club. Las Zetas’ leader RAUL VAZQUEZ offers her a reward and she asks for his help in gaining proof to convict the corrupt Congressmen, which could eventually result in the mine being returned to the cartel. RAUL agrees to finance her undercover investigation and provide personnel to help her. She is also aided by GREG, an American computer specialist she meets in Chihuahua city, who gives her high-tech video recording equipment in the form of a necklace.
In disguise, DEBORAH returns to the U.S. and obtains information about who is responsible for the payments to offshore banking accounts for SENATOR JOHNSON and his colleagues. She then travels to Canada to interrogate HARRY TREMBLAY, the bank vice president who set up the accounts. With a little stimulation from DEBORAH, TREMBLAY willingly provides the account information and the names of the gun manufacturers paying the bribes. Back in Mexico, DEBORAH gives the information to Las Zetas’ leader RAUL, who sets up a meeting between Las Zetas and Superb Metals with the intent of regaining control of the mine. RAUL asks DEBORAH to be a member of the negotiation team. DEBORAH also gives the information to her new friend GREG, who sends it to the FBI. GREG reveals to DEBORAH that he is really her former friend and colleague CHRISTOPHER and an undercover FBI agent. The two make love and begin to plan a future together.
On the way to the negotiations meeting between Las Zetas and Superb Metals Inc., DEBORAH learns that SENATOR JOHNSON has framed her for the death of HARRY TREMBLAY, the Canadian bank vice president. She fears for her life. SENATOR JOHNSON attends the negotiation meeting as a member of the Superb Metals’ team. DEBORAH recognizes him, but he doesn’t recognize her. The negotiations don’t go well and DEBORAH reveals her identity to SENATOR JOHNSON and tells him she has enough information to send him to jail. He threatens her, and the FBI steps in to arrest him. Gunfire breaks out between Las Zetas’ and Superb Metals’ protective forces as DEBORAH tries to flee. Many deaths occur on both sides.
At SENATOR JOHNSON’S trial for accepting bribes, CHRISTOPHER COLLINS (aka GREG) provides evidence DEBORAH procured on the necklace he gave her of payments to SENATOR JOHNSON from Superb Metals and U.S. gun manufacturers. He also testifies that he fears DEBORAH is dead, because her bodyguards were killed at the negotiati

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hawes & Jenkins Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jun 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9781637841587

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Over The Line

(INVISIBLE HANDS OVER THE PEOPLEaEUR(tm)S HOUSE)

Washington Toe

ISBN 978-1-63784-157-0 (paperback)

ISBN 978-1-63784-158-7 (digital)

Copyright © 2023 by Washington S. Toe

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Table of Contents

Logline

Acknowledgement

Inspirations

Synopsis

Treatment

About the Author

Logline

A single mother in Washington, D.C. loses her son to gun violence and decides to go undercover to investigate corrupt U.S. Congressmen who take bribes from gun manufacturers to prevent gun control legislation from passing.

Acknowledgement

Debra Blake

Susan Bendickson

John McCain

Keyana B. Toe

Inspirations

Tyler Perry

Oprah Winfrey

Denzel Washington

Rev, Dr. Francis O.S. Tabla

"In life, we are giving no guarantees. In our journeys we're face with roadblocks and bumpy roads, and it takes extraordinary great and dedication to navigate the rough to rain, that often life can give us and still have the internal fortitude to believe in ourselves. We must have deep faith, be a visionary, be led by unwoven passion and be able to bet on ourselves. By doing so, we'll show the world that there is a different path to ultimate success. Dream of the impossible dream, bear the unbearable sorrow and fought the unbeatable forge to run where the brave dear not to go. Sometimes, we've to carve our own paths and find a way to make a way."

Oprah Winfrey

Synopsis

DEBORAH GONZALEZ HENDERSON works as a member of the security detail for U.S. Senator EDWARD JOHNSON, whom she accompanies on frequent travels to Canada to meet with executives of Superb Metals Inc., a company that owns a mine in Mexico. Superb Metals supplies chromium to U.S. gun companies for weapons manufacturing. After SENATOR JOHNSON and several of his colleagues oppose gun control bills in the Senate, DEBORAH suspects they are accepting bribes in return for their influence in Congress. When her son JASON is killed by a deranged shooter at the grocery store, and SENATOR JOHNSON opposes new gun control legislation, DEBORAH decides to tell a reporter what she knows about SENATOR JOHNSON'S dealings with Superb Metals and U.S. gun manufacturers. Before she can do so, she is kidnapped and held hostage at Superb Metals' mining compound in Mexico. While there, she learns that her close friend and former colleague, CHRISTOPHER COLLINS, another member of SENATOR JOHNSON'S security detail, has been killed.

DEBORAH manages to escape from the mine and is rescued by members of Las Zetas cartel, former owners of the mine, who are actively fighting to regain control of it from Superb Metals. At a high-end dance club in Chihuahua city several nights later, she uses her military training to kill intruders and save members of Las Zetas, who own the club. Las Zetas' leader RAUL VAZQUEZ offers her a reward and she asks for his help in gaining proof to convict the corrupt Congressmen, which could eventually result in the mine being returned to the cartel. RAUL agrees to finance her undercover investigation and provide personnel to help