Jim Smith, an ex-British politician, forced to flee abroad after threatening to expose massive fraud in international aid returns to renew his campaign. An international political thriller and study of an eccentric man who steadfastly refuses to fit into the stereotype of a modern politician.
Screenplay Award 2022
The Page Turner Award's Screenplay Award is for screenwriters who want to place their writing in front of film producers, and for authors who would like to see their books adapted to film.
"Paralyzed Without Fear" by JACQUE Dunkle
When a young daredevil's dreams are crushed by paralysis in a motorcycle crash, he faces life like he does fear - head on. Defying all odds, he goes rogue with his own ingenious life-risking plan to salvage his broken life and fulfill the dream of having a family, no matter what the cost.
"Day 3" by Bill Birney
A truly unbelievable break comes to a cynical, washed-up actor when he refuses to do a death scene on the last day of a movie shoot.
"The Back Door" by Bill Birney
When a journalism student at a community college, interviews for an intern job she isn’t expecting to get thrown in the deep end.
"Killer in the Crowd " by Phil Johnson
Live music is in her blood, but as the death threats arrive, she fears there’s a killer in the crowd. Can teacher Cath take her mother’s place, and front her mum’s old band to inspire four ageing woman punks to catch a killer, and solve the mystery of what really happened to her missing mother?
"The Man Who Couldn't Stay Dead" by mayfly Read
A man is murdered in Italy. Hours later a boy is born in England with facial scars. He grows up with nightmares of being murdered. As an adult, he goes to Italy to find his killer using images from his nightmares. He then digs up his own body to retrieve the valuable object that is buried with it.
"Shooting Blanks" by oliviarosegarden Rose
"In a world where all boys are sterilised at birth; a man must meet the conditions of a formidable panel of women to have 'The Fix' reversed and marry the girl of his dreams."
"SILVERMANE" by Georges le Macon
Hunting the St. Lawerence Strangler, Dr. Bethany Lomax begins to believe there is a psychic link between herself and Canada’s most prolific child murderer.