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NEW YORK (AP) — The chief of the U.S. Capitol Police during the Jan. 6 siege has a book deal. Steven A. Sund’s “Courage Under Fire: Under Siege and Outnumbered 58 to 1 on January 6” will come out Jan. 3, just shy of the two-year anniversary of the riot by supporters of President Donald Trump.
“It’s time
to break my silence and reveal everything that I know happened,” Sund said in a
statement released Monday by Blackstone Publishing.
Sund
resigned under pressure soon after Jan. 6 and testified the following month
that he hadn’t seen an FBI field report warning of potential violence. He said
the overrunning of the U.S. Capitol was the result of widespread failures.
“No single
civilian law enforcement agency — and certainly not the USCP — is trained and
equipped to repel, without significant military or other law enforcement
assistance, an insurrection of thousands of armed, violent, and coordinated
individuals focused on breaching a building at all costs,” he testified.
According to
Blackstone, Sund will provide “a detailed and harrowing minute-by-minute
account of the attack” and trace “Sund’s extraordinary journey from his command
post on January 6 to his explosive behind-closed-doors testimony before the
January 6 committee.” Sund will include a “never-before-heard accounting of a
call from the White House” during the siege and “never-before-detailed
conversations” between himself and Congressional leadership.
Last week,
Random House and Celadon Books announced that they will release editions of the
Jan. 6 committee’s final report once it is completed. Random House will include
a foreword by Rep. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, and Celadon’s book will
feature an epilogue by Rep Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland. Both
congressmen are committee members.