Synopsis… Brogan’s Bust

Colombia and Peru stand tall among countries infested with graft, crime and corruption. They spearhead intrigue in the world’s most politically unstable continent where ruthless crime bosses bludgeon their ways to wealth in land rackets, prostitution, extortion, illegal gem trading, drugs, gun-running and smuggling. Guerrilla bands maraud and butcher their ways to political unrest, and in the disease infested jungle towns of the equatorial backwaters of the mighty Amazon, illicit river traffic is the major industry

Brogan’s Bust is the story of an adventurer enmeshed in intrigue. He flies a charter service between remote jungle outposts, each on the very edge of moral propriety where graft and corruption make mockery of the law. Conscientious policemen flounder in the swill of their catch-twenty-two environment when in order to preserve lives and securities, they must turn blind eyes to corruption.

Brogan befriends policemen of Colombia and Peru, subservient to corrupt military leaders. Together they plot to do no more than introduce a hiccup to upset the smooth flow of the illicit trades that plague their world, yet find that intrigue and backstabbing amongst cartel middle men, goaded by their greed, cause the hiccup to become a stumble that generates into a fall to begin a slide to snowball into an avalanche.

The jungle communities in which they operate are havens for he or she who turn backs on civilisation to live where, in the 1930s they are a thousand kilometres from the nearest road, electric light or telephone.

Into this hot-pot of dropouts from civilisation, stir in schemers and grafters, a novice priest on his founding assignment, the erstwhile upholders of law and order, ethnic Indians who resent the intruders and those who somehow continue to hold a moral faith in an environment that exists largely on moral faithlessness.

You soon have simmering a rich ragout of intrigue, murder, subterfuge, romance and adventure.