Former Capitol Police chief announces Jan. 6 book deal ahead of panel’s next hearing

In a bid to “break” his silence, former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven A. Sund announced a book deal Monday with Blackstone Publishing, promising to reveal new details of his experience during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

The book, “Courage Under Fire: Under Siege and Outnumbered 58 to 1 on January 6,” will come out on Jan. 3, almost two years after the riot.

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“It’s almost two years after January 6 and the American people still don’t know the truth. It’s time to break my silence and reveal everything that I know happened,” Sund said in a press release by Blackstone Publishing.

After being “forced to take the fall and resign, this is Chief Sund’s chance to answer those questions and to tell the full truth about what really happened on January 6,” according to the release.

The book claims to deliver “never-before-detailed conversations between Chief Sund and Congressional leadership during the attack,” “Conversations that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said never occurred,” “never-before-heard accounting of a call from the White House to Chief Sund during the attack,” “an expose of critical intelligence and military failures surrounding January 6 and the subsequent attempts to cover them up,” and “deeply personal conversations between the chief and officers who had just been through the attack.”

“Chief Sund has written a book that details the road to January 6, including never before revealed information, a harrowing account of the attack itself which reads like Black Hawk Down at the U.S. Capitol, and the cover-up that followed. The book contains shocking new information that the American public needs to know,” Blackstone Publishing CEO Josh Stanton said.

The account further promises to recall the “shock and horror” of the “savage attack” on the Capitol that day.

“Now, for the first time, Chief Steven Sund has written the definitive inside story of the perfect storm of events that led up to the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, a day that rocked the nation and threatened our democracy,” continues the release.

The book deal is in the seven-figure range, according to Deadline.

Sund testified last year that “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” during a joint hearing with the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Rules Committee.

Testifying as well, Washington Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee described Sund’s pleas for assistance from the National Guard, whose response was described by the men as delayed.

Sund resigned following the riot, along with House Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving and Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger. He later claimed to regret this move.

Near the one-year anniversary of the event, Sund took to Twitter to tell users that he would soon share his story.

On Wednesday, the Jan. 6 committee will hold another hearing, and it could be its last.

“I can say that, unless something else develops, this hearing, at this point, is the final hearing,” said Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS). “But it’s not in stone because things happen.”

Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is expected to testify this time around.

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The hearing will begin at 1 p.m. on Sept. 28.