One Way Tickets - 1st Part of Mid-Budget Franchise

A retired combat veteran living in south Florida gets a call in the middle of the night telling him his younger ne’er-do-well brother has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom in the Dominican Republic. The anonymous caller demands a large sum of cash be delivered to Santo Domingo by the end of the week or his brother will be killed. The aging warrior assures the caller he will be there and hangs up. The veteran has no intention of paying a ransom and is secretly delighted with this invitation to a fire fight. With the eager assistance of a small group of beautifully flawed discount heroes bored with peace time living, he initiates a reckless and daring plan - A plan that will leave a trail of death, destruction and a little grand larceny in the Caribbean. Inspiration for this slightly dark and quirky action adventure was something my older brother, a real life former Marine Corps combat veteran, said to me just before I went to the Middle East to host a technology transfer workshop, "Don't go over there, get in trouble and make me come get you out." This is first of three completed mid-budget feature length scripts: One Way Tickets, Tropical Princess and Animal Rescue. One Way Tickets also exists as a published novella length ebook available on Amazon Kindle. Not wordy enough to be considered a proper novel, but certainly long enough to be an entertaining read OR a Director's Cut written in prose. See Pitch Deck for this mid-budget action adventure franchise posted below.