Five college friends reunite at a lavish estate deep in the Pacific Northwest, and after a night of drunken revelry, their host is discovered missing and secret grudges reveal that everyone had a motive for violence.
When Manhattan is buried by the worst blizzard to hit the East Coast in a century, it’s not the lunar temperatures or the six feet of snow blanketing the concrete eco-system that paralyzes the city – it’s the sniper targeting law enforcement officers. After computer model results show that the killer is somehow bending the laws of physics, university professor (and former FBI agent) Dr. Lucas Page is pulled out of retirement to put his skill set against both man and nature. But after joining the investigation, Page learns that the FBI is focusing in the wrong direction, and that someone inside the FBI might actually be orchestrating the killings.
Lochery’s book tells the story of Lisbon’s role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis powers operated openly, it was temporary home to much of Europe’s exiled royalty, over one million refugees seeking passage to the U.S., and a host of spies from every nation fighting in the war, secret police, captains of industry, bankers, prominent Jews, writers and artists, escaped POWs, and black marketeers. An operations officer writing in 1944 described the daily scene at Lisbon’s airport as being like the movie “Casablanca,” times twenty.
A meek analyst for the Secret Service is given her chance at the glamorous protective detail when her obnoxious brother-in-law is elected President of the United States.
Story of 48 U.S. paratroopers from Chosen Company (aka the “Chosen Few”) who arrived in eastern Afghanistan in late 2007 hoping to win over a remote mountain people and extend the Afghan government’s reach. Instead, they spent the next 15 months in a desperate struggle for survival — living under near-constant attack from Taliban fighters who surrounded them on all sides.
Centers on a member of a professional eSports team, and an anomaly in a sport where players usually retire in their 20s due to slowing hand-eye coordination.
An exhilarating and eerie new novel, Dead Souls, is making its way through the film and television markets, with John Beach and Kevin Cleary of Gravity Squared Entertainment leading the way.
Fiona Quinn finds herself part of a strange support group, the “dead souls,” after she makes a deal with the devil for a wish in exchange for a favor and her immortal soul.
Logline: Falsely convicted of rape, Johnny Bragg is sentenced to 542 years in the Tennessee State Penitentiary in 1942. But a belief in God and love of music lead him to form The Prisonaires, a jailhouse gospel/doo-wop quintet. The band comes to the attention of a progressive new Governor Frank Clement, who has Johnny and the band perform all over the state to forward his prison reform bill. With the help of a young Elvis, Johnny and The Prisonaires record a hit single, “Just Walkin In The Rain.” Johnny soon learns that he must sing his way out of prison – before the KKK or an abusive Deputy Warden can kill him during the tumultuous civil rights movement of the early 1950s.
Logline: The story of the 1978 battle between Jerry Brown, the sexy 40-year old Governor of California, and the 75-year old leader of a taxpayer revolution, Proposition 13 creator Howard Jarvis.
Logline: A good guy who always plays by the book inherits his father’s gambling debts, forcing him to kill a world-famous artist solely to inflate the price of his paintings.
Logline: Mickey’s life is thrown into a tailspin when his company starts up a work release program and his estranged father, a career criminal, is their first participant.
Logline: Pitched as “The Firm” meets “Silence of The Lambs” — A young woman is brutally murdered and left on gruesome display in her own home, kicking off an investigation into a bizarre string of disturbing murders. As the panic rises, civil attorney Teddy Mack is thrown headfirst into the grisly homicide, and into a world of dirty politics & corrupt justice, forcing him to enter this killer’s domain in order to bring the terror to an end.
Logline: Samuel Clemens, a bookish printer on his way to the gold fields of California with his brother Henry in 1849, have to evade spies, Mounties & assassins after being framed for murder, and with help from Susan B. Anthony and a few riverboat con-men, must save America from being invaded and re-colonized by Great Britain. Pitched as SHERLOCK HOLMES meets ROMANCING THE STONE set on the Mississippi River.
