The Swetky Agency - The Old Spies Club

Submission Synopsis

The Old Spies Club
by Steve Jennex

Length:
79, 594

Genre:
Action/Adventure

Sentence:
Pulled from retirement, a veteran CIA team travels deep within the Colombian jungle, battling themselves, the elements and paramilitary soldiers as they hunt for a downed jet and one of its survivors.

Blurb:
When a private jet crashes in the mountainous wilds of Colombia's Los Katios Park, wheels are set in motion to reassemble a veteran team of CIA field agents to find the wreckage and one important passenger. Paired with feuding counterparts from the Drug Enforcement Agency, they must contend with the extreme terrain, rival paramilitary soldiers and volatile rain forest natives, all the while asking themselves Does the Old Spies Club still have what it takes to get the job done?

Synopsis:
Where do old spies go when it's time to be 'put out to pasture'? For Frank Spezzio, changes at the CIA left him out in the cold. The loss of his livelihood, combined with the tragic death of longtime girlfriend, drove him into seclusion. He traded in his cloak and dagger for cabin and a fishing rod on the lake in rural Oregon.

Now, Uncle Sam wants him back.

When a private jet crashes in the mountain wilderness of Colombia, the paths of two men continents apart suddenly converge. For Frank 'Buck' Spezzio, the event is an opportunity to reassemble his old team of CIA operatives, return to his roots and find renewed purpose in his life. His mission - get to Colombia and track down the jet's survivors. For Daniel Ortez, narcotics kingpin and Colombian political heavyweight, the crash of his airplane is more than the loss of an expensive toy. One of the passengers, his brother, is returning from prison in Panama with information vital to Daniel's operations. Both men are looking for the same man, but only one will find him.

The Old Spies Club moves from continental U.S. to the Colombian rain forest as Spezzio, and his reassembled team of veteran operatives attempt to find the proverbial 'needle in a haystack': a small airplane in a big jungle. Simultaneously, a squad of paramilitary soldiers loyal to Ortez begin their own search for the jet. Neither group can anticipate the role of Colombia's elusive Yupka natives deep within the rain forest as they hunt for their man.

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.