Submission Synopsis

The King of Maicao

by Steve Jennex

Book Opening

Length:

81,600

Genre:

Action/Adventure
Suspense
Mainstream/Contemporary

Sentence:

Parachuting into a sea of violence, an American mining engineer faces off against the CIA, corrupt local government, and a desperate native population as he struggles to run a coal mine in the wilds of far-off Colombia.

Blurb:

Armed with little more than a Spanish-English dictionary, mining engineer Ben Murdock travels to the savanna of Colombia to restore the operations of his company’s flagging coal mine. Plunged into a violent confrontation between corrupt government troops, left-wing rebels and desperate natives, Murdock finds refuge in the arms of a young woman - a free-spirited Colombian reactionary. His back to the wall, he has to question his values and whether he can trust the motives of his new love.

Synopsis:

Ben Murdock is well known in mining circles as a man who gets the job done, and follows routine. But when his employer acquires a money-losing coalmine in faraway South America, Murdock quickly discovers getting the job done in rural Colombia is anything but routine. Lost amid corrupt government officials, brutal paramilitary soldiers and culturally out of his element, he struggles to make sense of a land steeped in violence and upheaval. When he finds himself falling for a woman with reactionary ties, Murdock finds his routine-oriented existence spinning out of control.

With the CIA nipping at his heels, native warriors intent on ending his life, and a man he hardly knows – a mercenary - watching his back, Ben Murdock faces the biggest decisions of his career, with his very life likely hanging in the balance.

Can he satisfy his profit-eager employer, pacify the restless natives driven from their land and win the heart of his new love? Murdock isn’t sure, and there are storm clouds brewing on the horizon.

Bio:

Steve Jennex is a business communicator with a taste for adventure, having logged over 500 scuba dives on shipwrecks from around the world. Researching his writing has taken him from the busy markets of Havana to the rain forest in Antigua.

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