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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.
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