SYNOPSIS:
After seven years of a fruitless career in the Middle East, Dannie
Lennox now finds himself in an airline heading to Africa. On board with
Lennox is Howard, a friend he met while he was in vacation in Dubai and,
Hale whom Howard present to be his best friend and business partner
specialized in global logistics.
Hired by an underground Russian businessman code-named (The
supplier), Lennox is on a life changing assignment to haul-out USD 22
000 000.00 worth of gold bars and diamonds from Central African,
destination; Asia. On arrival, their first recruit is Ethan Neville, a
guy with whom Lennox had worked when he was in the Middle East. Ethan is
highly indebted, and his family is about to be evicted from their home
by a local bank for unpaid loan. Hired as the transporter, Ethan is
given the wrong information about the real nature of the deal. Lennox
meets with the local contact in a nearby hotel. The extraction is due to
take place in less than 72 hours in a farm of peanuts where the package
has been buried for more than two years.
Extraction cover: the buying of peanuts by Lennox for exportation to
Asia. Lennox, Howard and Hale heads to the farm first to supervise the
peanut harvest. Ethan finally joins them with a truck. While Lennox led
crew now heads for the seaport, one of the villagers that participated
in the peanuts harvest rushes to a neighboring market with a gold bar he
robbed. Without any knowledge of what he has robbed, the villager is
arrested by the police while attempting to sell the gold bar. A two
years old cold-case is resurrected. A dozen of corrupt and, influential
local government officials now feel threatened by what might become the
revelation of the cold case and, they’d do whatever it takes to stay in
the shadow. While being checked at a police checkpoint, Ethan hears over
the radio he is wanted. With a hint of what he has been ignorantly
involved in, Ethan hauls the truck into a roadside forest mile after the
breath-taking police control. While chasing Ethan, Howard blames Lennox
of compromising the mission by hiring someone so unreliable like Ethan.
Finally, they find the truck intact without Ethan. Howard receives a
phone call from the US secret service during which he is informed that
Lennox and Ethan are wanted. It is a situation that might compromise
Howard secret mission. While Lennox seeks Ethan in the depth of the
forest, Howard and Hale retrieve the package from the truck and
successfully escape from the scene. Lennox finally finds Ethan, after a
brief fight, he tells Ethan the reason while he couldn’t tell him the
truth. Back at the truck, Lennox and Ethan realizes Howard and Hale have
escaped with the package.
Now on the Run with Ethan, Lennox realizes Howard and Hale had set
them up to escape with the package. In the meantime, the local police
authorities under direct presidential order are screening every hide out
and exit with determination to arrest Ethan and Lennox alive. Being the
only way to know the government officials involved in the stealing of
the gold bars and diamonds that occurred two years ago. Meanwhile, the
implicated government officials through ingenuity now invest as much as
they can to have Ethan and Lennox killed as soon as possible. A.
Raymond, A regional chief of police determined to know the truth at his
own peril is drawn into an investigation full of secrets, intricate
network of personas governed by fraud masterminds, evil and innocence.
The country could be at the brink of war if the investigation moves any
closer to them. Howard now stands the chance to identify and possibly
arrest the man code named (The Supplier) working for an unknown Indian
gold dealer wanted by the US government, and presumed to be involved and
heading an illegal armed trafficking network and in business with some
unidentified high ranked US government officials.
In a country at the brink of war, Lennox and Ethan life’s now depends
on how soon Howard mission succeeds, and Howard willingness to help
them. Weeks later, Howard identifies the real name of -the supplier- and
his entire contacts list is revealed to the US government. One of the
links takes Howard and Hale to the identification of the underground
Indian dude and his contacts in the US government are revealed to the
FBI. Back in Africa, Howard secretly helps A. Raymond with enough
evidences which smoothly lead him to the identification of the
untouchable’s government officials. But with the active support of the
president, few are arrested while others successfully mange to escape
from the country.
Howard and Hale finally smuggles Lennox and Ethan out of the country,
offering to them a well paid job in Uruguay. Global headlines are made.
Gilbert Mbeh © 2012
