FLAMINGO COAST
GENRE
SUSPENSE/THRILLER ACTION CRIME
Core Theme
SUSPENSE
TIME PERIOD
Contemporary
COMPARABLE TITLES
CSI, JAMES BOND SERIES, OCEAN’S TWELVE
CHARACTER LIST
• JENNIFER MORTON: 30'S. LEAD. INTELLIGENT AND DRIVEN
• JACK MARTIN. 30'S. FLAMINGO MANAGEMENT. GENUINE AND IDEALISTIC
• MARSHALL SHORE 60'S. ANTAGONIST. BRILLIANT LEADER AND MANIPULATOR
Logline
Former IRS agent Jennifer Morton goes after a corrupt hedge fund manager and discovers the largest network of expatriate fugitives in the world. Just as she’s about to expose the entire web, she learns the the truth about her father and has to choose between two very different types of betrayals.
Target Audiences
Age: 35-54,18-34,55+
Target Gender: Universal
Setting
Cayman Islands
Based on a True Story
Yes
Publishing Details
Status: Yes: with a Publisher
Publisher: Rare Bird Books
Year Published: 2019
Starting Description
After Jennifer Morton is fired from the IRS, she pursues a fat-cat financial felon that has fled to an island with no extradition laws. While off the grid and undercover, she discovers a community that shelters some of the most wanted white-collar fugitives in the world.
Ending Description
While undercover and using another woman's identity, Jennifer falls in love with a man who also may not be who he claims to be. She's forced to choose between running away with him, bringing down the biggest scandal she's ever encountered, or avenging her abhorrent father.
Group Specific
Information not completed
Hard Copy Available
Yes
ISBN
ISBN-10: 1947856588 ISBN-13: 978-1947856585
Mature Audience Themes
Information not completed
Plot - Other Elements
Twist,Happy Ending
Plot - Premise
Overcoming Monster/Villain,Rags to Riches,Internal Journey/Rebirth,Quest
Main Character Details
Name: Jennifer Mann
Age: 33
Gender: Female
Role: Protagonist
Key Traits: Badass,Aggressive,Sexy,Complex,Empathetic,Skillful,Lone Wolf
Additional Character Details
Name: Jack Martin
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Role: Emotional
Key Traits: Masculine,Charming,Confident,Engaging,Visionary
Additional Character Details
Name: Marshall Shore
Age: 65
Gender: Male
Role: antagonist
Key Traits: Narcisstic,Criminal,Visionary,Sophisticated,Manipulative,Leader,Greedy
Additional Character Details
Name: Roberta Coscarello
Age: 60
Gender: Female
Role: mentor
Key Traits: Empathetic,Selfless,Skillful,Funny,Heroic,Secretive,Unapologetic
Brief
Disgraced IRS agent Jennifer Morton goes undercover to take down a corrupt hedge fund manager who has fled from his criminal trial. Jennifer tracks him down and finds a system of expatriate fugitives hiding in plain sight. She infiltrates the organization in order to take it down, but the unveiling of her missing father complicates the situation. In the end, she takes what she can get and tries to smuggle true love out of the island's corrupt dealings.
What We Liked
- The use of a former IRS agent instead of cop/CIA/FBI garners a bit of interest from the reader right away. Those that enjoy opulence and bling will fit in right away with the story's fascination over the rich and powerful.;
- The story has good interconnected storylines - her past and her motivations are documented well enough that we get a sense of her character and motivations early, and we are not surprised by her decisions but rather by the excellence with which she performs them;
- This narrative is well-paced for the summer action slot. It has a strong female lead which will play well with the current zeitgeist in mind and there is still enough sexual tension to keep the audience pining for more;
- As a series, the viewer could expect Jennifer to take down many of the criminal billionaires that got away in her time at the IRS. Names she knew, cases she worked on, it seems each one of them has a weak spot that Jennifer could exploit to bring them down--all the while looking to take down the whale himself, Marshall Shore, who protects them all.
Synopsis
Jennifer Morton is a fantastic IRS agent. She takes her own liberties and gets her job done even if it means skirting the rules. Her only mistake was getting too comfortable with the press. When she gets let go from her government job, Jennifer takes on a new identity in order to track down the white collar scum that she couldn't put away the first time.
With the help of a small team, she jets off to the Caymans to track down a single villain, but instead runs into a whole island full of hidden-away billionaires. In order to take her target down, Jennifer must play her cards right and make a name for herself with the management of this hidden paradise: Flamingo Enterprises.
All starts out well. Jennifer finds herself an attractive manager named Jack and gets an invitation to meet the boss, Marshall Shore. Little does she know that the owner operator of Flamingo Enterprises, Mr. Shore himself, is actually her long lost father Michael Morton. Everything comes to a head when the CIA thwart Jennifer's efforts to take down her target and her cover is blown. But it seems Jennifer is one step ahead of them all, even if she doesn't always know it.
Jennifer confronts the boss, her father, and he explains that CIA hid him away because they needed his help shuffling money through foreign banks. She doesn't have any sympathy for him, and her love interest kills his boss, Jennifer's father, alongside his head of security. The two make their way off the island, but not before dropping off the boss' files to a trusted source that brings them back to a CNN reporter in the states.