In 1969, the first Apollo spacecraft landed on the moon, a feat that solidified the United States as the world's leading super power. Today, the President, in a bid for a second term, has promised her nation a modern-day lunar landing. Her problem: the Apollo missions were faked. It is physically impossible for man to survive a trip to the moon.
Desperate for space travel, the President enlists the aid of infamous action filmmaker Dylan Travant, a man she recently tried to assassinate. Dylan's job is to shoot a phony moon landing, the same as his father had done decades earlier.
The President and Dylan, however, share a mutual nemesis - and obstacle – charismatic, superstar U.S. Senator, Mitch McAvoy. Challenging the President to a primary battle, Mitch and his father, wealthy banking entrepreneur General Early McAvoy, wage a brutal, crafty political war. Interlaced with Mitch's cross-continental campaigning of social and economic issues, he treks across the world to settle a family (and professional) vendetta with Dylan, who, unbeknownst to him, has transformed a patch of Afghanistan into the President's moon. All the while, Karina Kelly, Mitch's beautiful fiancée and Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, is uncovering information that may destroy the President's plans and expose Dylan as a fraud...and that can't happen.
What ensues is an international roller coaster ride of political deceit, thievery, heroism, sex and scandal. Government bosses, movie stars, CIA operatives, media moguls, war lords and the Vatican's highest, simultaneously both heroes and villains, enter and break treaties. They kill, yet they save. In this suspense-filled thriller of changing identities and mass manipulation, it's the faked lunar landings that may determine the fate of so many. But this great government and Hollywood hoax isn't The Great Heist. For there is much more to be stolen than the moon...
KENNETH DEL VECCHIO
Often headlined as “Renaissance Man,” Kenneth Del Vecchio is an acclaimed filmmaker who has written, produced and directed 15 feature films that star 50+ film and TV stars, including multiple Academy Award and Emmy winners and nominees. He has recent distribution deals with majors such as Palisades Tartan Films, Universal’s Vivendi Entertainment, Anchor Bay and E-1 Entertainment, with several other large distribution deals underway. Mr. Del Vecchio is founder and chairman of one of the world’s largest film festivals, Hoboken International Film Festival. He also is the author of some of the nation’s bestselling legal books, including criminal codebooks published by Prentice Hall and New Jersey Law Journal Books/ALM, as well as a bestselling criminal suspense novelist. In addition, he is the owner of The Criminal Law Learning Center, where he has taught thousands of police officers and lawyers…And he is a former Judge, who also has tried over 400 cases as a practicing criminal attorney.
Kenneth Del Vecchio’s filmography includes: An Affirmative Act, iMurders, Kinky Killers, Fake, O.B.A.M. Nude, Three Chris’s, Alone in the Dark 2, The Drum Beats Twice, Pride & Loyalty, Tinsel Town, Here and There, The Crimson Mask, and Rules For Men. His novels are Pride & Loyalty, Revelation in the Wilderness and The Great Heist (his most recent novel), which will be released by Transit Publishing in December 2010. And his legal books include: Code of Criminal Justice: A Practical Guide to the Penal Statutes (national criminal codebook), New Jersey Code of Criminal Justice: A Practical Guide to the Penal Statutes, New York Code of Criminal Justice: A Practical Guide to the Penal Statutes, and Test Prep Guide to Accompany New Jersey Code of Criminal Justice, with numerous others in the works.
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