The Casual Hostage: Based on true events

It was a quiet afternoon in Kern County, when Sebastian Martinez, Public Defender, was abruptly taken from the seclusion of the Tehachapi Mountains to the brutal reality of a building under siege in downtown Bakersfield. The man inside, holding over a dozen hostages and claiming to have a bomb with a dead man switch, says he wants to clear his name. He is threatening to blow the building up unless the government reopens the case that sent him to prison, but there is something else in his list of demands. He wants to talk to the person he hates the most in the world, his public defender Martinez. It then becomes a race against time as the FBI prepares to send its Hostage Rescue Team into the building to kill the man, and the local police and Sebastian frantically try to find a way out of the crisis. But the only way out may place Sebastian Martinez once again directly into harm's way. It is a fast-paced story, based on real events, that keeps you at the edge of your seat as it races to its climactic conclusion.