A Time to Die! — W. Matthew Hart

A fully loaded oil tanker departs the refinery from the Port of Philadelphia and travels down the Delaware River to and through the C&D Canal and then sails toward Norfolk, VA on the Chesapeake Bay. The ship is Hijacked and forced to anchor in the Hampton Roads Virginia by a team that consists of a paid arsonist and three terrorist. They threaten to blow up the million gallon cargo of Jet Fuel if ten of the named Guantanamo prisoners are not set free in Cuba to leave for Venezuela on a private yacht. Alan & Meg Hast and their ten year old son Jay have scheduled a weekend the Hampton Roads. Then the arsonist recognizes Alan Hast as they are sailing their boat past the hijacked ship. Suddenly the arsonist has a plan; a plan based on getting revenge. He decides to up the demands of the terrorists by kidnapping Alan's son Jay and bringing him to the ship and to hold him for a gold ransom of a million dollars. Not known to the terrorist, the Navy Spec Ops team is ready in Virginia with a Cobra Helicopter waiting near Navassa Island; which is a small island that is part of the United States between Jamaica and the Dominican Republic a couple hundred miles from Cuba.