Brogan Abroad. SYNOPSIS

   Brogan Abroad is a tale of true-life experiences. Brogan plans on none of the three life-threatening adventures thrust upon him. Each destines him, should results not meet expectations, to having his throat slit in some dark alley…

   Yet what can a man do, when, to accomplish one, I must fail at another?

   He finds himself, while running from threats promised firstly by a cocaine-smuggling cartel, secondly getting involved in smuggling high-profile prostitutes from Thailand into Australia, only to be unwittingly conscripted as an intelligence pawn in Sudan’s revolution.

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   Brogan, a travel journalist, is innocently inveigled in a drug running operation when police raid his neighbour’s house in Sydney’s Paddington.

   In an attempt to hide from the drug cartel while completing a writing commitment in Thailand, he is approached to assist Australian authorities crack the trafficking—or should that, his alter-ego insisted, read ‘smuggling’, into Australia, of a high-profile prostitute. Whilst awaiting his application to smuggle such a lady through the system, he is given an assignment to travel to the Sudan to research a major story. The career benefits to be accrued are significant.

   So he goes, despite aware that time-wise, he is cutting things fine on getting his lady to Sydney—only to be caught up in the Sudan’s bloody mayhem.

   He is devastated to discover, once there, the key to achieving his goal has led him down the labyrinth of revolution intrigue. He finds himself a courier of top-secret information…

   …But for which bloody side? I am a pawn trapped in a no-man’s land!

   When at last beginning to believe he can get back to Thailand in time to complete his flesh-trade assignment so that that cartel doesn’t join the others gunning for him, the revolution breaks out. He is grounded in a country with closed borders—no foreigner can leave until only God knows when!

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   All three ‘adventures’ intertwined in this recounting are true experiences. The real names of the characters involved have been changed in order to preserve true identities.