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SALVAGERS
A Novel
How rich would you be if you lost all your money?
Dax Goodman, the last surviving Doctor of Theology, finds himself marooned on a frontier outpost far from Earth on a space station that is the ultimate expression of unrestrained, Godless capitalism. His money and possessions lost, his financial situation quickly spirals out of control, causing his travel permit to be revoked until he pays back the money he owes.
When his doctorate is mistaken for a medical degree, he is compelled to work as a medic on a grungy salvage ship crewed by eccentric, seemingly suicidal harbour workers until he can find his way home.
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COMING IN 2021
THE BAGHDAD TRAFFIC AUTHORITY
A Novel
Barrett Stone is a young, ambitious political intern billeted at The Christian Men’s Group Housing Project in Washington, D.C. The Project was designed as a pious solution to a problem that was all too common with Senators and Congressmen living away from home while enduring their public service; intended to protect the fidelity of certain weak-willed men who courted power and sexual partners with equal disregard for morality or public opinion.
Barrie is recruited to follow disgraced Illinois Congressman William B. Croney to Iraq during reconstruction, just after the 2003 invasion. Immediately buried in responsibilities for which he has no experience or education, he manages to lose $2,000,000,000 in cash and must recover it before anyone finds out it is missing.
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MASTERPIECE
A FEATURE FILM SCREENPLAY*
Who are we to judge the actions of a man forced to use all of his abilities to survive a brutal war?
After World War 2, Sergeant Robert Cachet, a French-Canadian Art expert, is attached to the Monuments Men task force charged with recovering artworks looted by the Nazis. Cachet is sent to Amsterdam to investigate a Nazi collaborator, Han van Meegeren, who is accused of selling Dutch masterpieces to Reischmarshal Hermann Goering. Van Meegeren claims to be a Dutch patriot who sold forged artwork to the Nazi high command in order to prevent the theft of authentic Dutch masterpieces.
Cachet is put in the difficult position of gleaning the truth from Van Meegeren, a man who has only a passing regard for the honesty. But the job becomes even more difficult when Van Meegeren discovers that Cachet’s credentials and behavior before the war are far from exemplary.
(*Masterpiece won a Praxis Screenwriting Competition fellowship at Simon Fraser University in 2012. It is being adapted into a novel.)
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ORPHAN
A FEATURE FILM SCREENPLAY*
(co-written with Peter Cummings)
In an adaptation of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens set in modern-day Mumbai, the orphaned nephew of an aristocratic business owner, known only as ‘Om’, grows up in the streets of Mumbai as an ‘untouchable’, surviving violence and starvation. When the people around him discover who he is, they quickly close in on him in the hope of capitalizing on the boy’s rich family. The boy’s uncle is in a race against time to save his life and bestow his inheritance.
(*Orphan – AKA: Om – was optioned in 2012 but is no longer in development.)
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OFFWORLD
A FEATURE FILM SCREENPLAY
A Fan Fiction Sequel to the original Blade Runner (2019)
Speculators from a cometary mining company discover the dying remains of Dr. Eldon Tyrell in a small ship that is crippled and drifting in a hellish solar system on the outer edges of explored space. The head of the Tyrell Corporation – a man considered a near God by the replicant crew of the ship – dies not long after they rescue him. Before Tyrell dies, he warns of a ‘monster’ he has been pursuing and begs the captain of the ship to kill whoever else they find in the area, no matter what their reason for being there.
Since the mining ship is unarmed, Rick Deckard, now much older and near death himself, is able to force his way onto the ship. He engages the captain of the mining vessel and tells the story of how, after his replicant lover Rachel expired, he slowly learned the real story behind who she was, and what relationship she had with Tyrell before Deckard knew her.
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