OSCURO
A dark, gritty, neo-noir SUSPENSE/THRILLER written along the lines of NARCOS and THE AMERICANS with an artful mix of THE X-FILES and RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARk
LOGLINE: While searching for two missing men, a troubled ex-Military Operative struggling with the horrors of his past, unwittingly uncovers a nefarious plot by multiple groups operating in the shadows of a seedy town, hell-bent on creating a New World Order.
SUMMARY: After Private Investigator HENRY CARSON mysteriously vanishes in South America while working a high-profile missing person case, his old military buddy, JOHN SMITH, is asked to step in and pick up the trail of the missing men. Don’t let Smith’s plain name fool you; he’s ex-Black Ops, the kind of “asset” the government denies exists, the kind who’s been to hell and back, and probably the most qualified person for the job. But what no one knows is John’s disavowed, a burned-out addict in recovery, whose past is coming back to haunt him in a bad way. For him, this is personal. Long ago, Henry saved his life, so John feels responsible to put his road to recovery on hold to help find his friend. Traveling to the city of TRES CONQUISTADORS (a strange town where the borders of Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay converge), Smith encounters apathetic authorities, men using familiar aliases, thinly veiled threats, a rash of other suspicious kidnappings, all while dealing with increasingly intense bouts of PTSD. But he must get his mind right because the further his investigation goes, the clearer the pieces of the murky puzzle start to become, or so he thinks. John sees political strife, guerrilla-style bombings, bureaucratic assassinations, and fraudulent elections turning the countryside around him into turmoil, and it all seemingly points back to his case. Something big is brewing in the shadows, and John needs to figure out who’s pulling the strings if he wants to find those missing men.
