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Violate Inviolate

Complete at 124 Pages 

Setting: Berlin 1936 & Montana  1987

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Log Line: Berlin - 1936 - a suave and charismatic Michael Faraday passionately loves his wife, his daughter, and stealing precious things from Nazis. When the Gestapo takes over the Berlin police and begins using torture to solve old cases, his days in Berlin are numbered. An escape to Shanghai goes smoothly until the Japanese attack. Separated  from his wife and daughter, he is told they they perished in a cholera outbreak in a Red Cross camp, but 50 years later, a name appears on a diplomatic cable, turning his life upside down again. 

The Order of the Cloud and Banner

The OCB:  113 pages 

Setting: Rangoon to Southern China - 1942

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LOG: An aging fighter pilot overcomes ridicule and pessimism from his US Army Air Corps peers to form a secret squadron in China. It's a hornet's nest of superior Japanese planes. Using wit, cunning, and perseverance, he hobbles together a group of pilots and old planes and uses untested tactics to turn the tide of a war.  


Inspired by true events, the Order of the Cloud and Banner tells a highly stylized, visually stunning story about one man who forms a covert squadron of American fighter pilots in Free China. Claire Chennault is seen as an outsider, mocked and ridiculed by his commanders in the Air Force. As the father of four children, he risks everything and travels across the globe to form and lead a secret squadron into battle when duty calls. The odds are stacked against him as he and a handful of American pilots engage in a fierce battle for survival against a superior Japanese air force. Japan has invaded and occupied much of the mainland, bombing cities without consequence, and every day, they secure access to more precious natural resources for their impending war against America. One small enclave known as Free China clings to existence by a thread.  The OCB / The Order of the Cloud and Banner ©  All rights reserved

Back to the Farm

Back to the Farm

Complete at 109 Pages

Setting: Present Day Small Town America, and New York 

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Log Line: Cameron is a 14-year-old boy with a family in the middle of a domestic disaster, and baseball is the only thing keeping him sane, but when a mega-millionaire superstar center fielder for the Yankees gets busted for steroids and then sentenced to a year of community service as Cameron's coach, chaos ensues and a strange cast of characters must win a little league championship to restore order to the universe 

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Blood Road

Blood Road:  129 Pages - Property Available 

Setting:  Rangoon & Kunming 1941

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Log line:  Burma- 1941 - A young cargo pilot hides in the Himalayas from a war he cannot understand, but the war finds him and forces him to love, hate, and risk everything to fly a suicide mission with a band of misfits who might just turn the tide of history. Blood Road © All Rights Reserved


Chicken Street

Chicken   Street - JK Cleary has formed an agreement with one “Tony” Abraham to tell his extraordinary true story. Tony was born into opulence and luxury within one of Afghanistan’s most prestigious families.   Caught between Islamic radicals, a besieged Jewish community, and the Soviet  army, the family wealth faded, and 16-year-old Tony was smuggled out of Kabul in 1979 with a simple warning from his father: ‘Don’t come back, or they’ll kill you.’   He arrived in New York with fifty dollars in his pocket, washed dishes, and took odd jobs. Yet, by the mid-80s, he had risen to become the managing partner of Manhattan's most elite private club. Women, wealth, cocaine and chaos consumed his life. He mixed and mingled with pop stars, tycoons, and media moguls until he was eventually coerced by the corrupt and feared   Group 13 of the DEA (true stuff, here) to go undercover and set up the coke dealers who frequented his club. After numerous successful operations, he nearly broke down and begged the DEA to let him go. He quickly left New York and started several successful businesses in California until the Director of the DEA once again threatened to deport him, or worse, if he did not cooperate. However, this time, he would have to help take down Group 13   (still true stuff, here) by testifying against the corrupt DEA agents who had used him a few years earlier. A true story, Chicken Street is the twisted tale of one man's extraordinary journey from Kabul to the American Dream.   


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