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ULTIMATE CONTROL

ULTIMATE CONTROL
By Gary DeMoss

GENRE: Thriller, Action
LOGLINE:

CIA Director Robert Turner confronts a world ending mission, struggling with the devastating choice between triggering Armageddon or losing his only Son and Bride. Turner’s mission is to diffuse a nuclear war, convince a sceptic administration of the threat, and rescue his son and bride entangled in a nefarious triangle of top-secret espionage. Inspired by the ill-fated flight of MH-370 and confidential intelligence.

SYNOPSIS:

A tense international thriller inspired by recent real-life events. An old agency hand like Turner expects the unexpected, but in this ticking-clock thriller, the Director and his devoted agents will discover not only the sophisticated lengths that our enemies will go to de-stabilize the West, and kill innocent civilians, but he -- and the audience -- come to realize the awesome technical resources and weaponry that we and our closest allies have secretly developed to defend ourselves against global and local terrorists.

According to MSS MI6 chatter, a dirty bomb has allegedly been smuggled aboard an unidentified container ship heading for God knows where. The scramble to find this dirty bomb takes the audience into MI6 and CIA headquarters, The White House Situation room and Oval Office, and Turner's own attempts to ascertain what is happening through his own sources.

Director Turner quickly appoints General Ward as special advisor, hires a Black Ops contractor to an international task force and the agency in the Langley – linked by all the latest advanced technology. As they quickly gather intelligence, Director Turner's team discovers that the container 'dirty bomb' is designed to throw everyone off the scent. An interrogation of a Maersk official reveals that the real dirty bomb is set to board a Malaysian commercial flight that will soon take off from Kula Lumpur bound for Beijing.

It seems that the terrorists have thought of everything with a team of on-board terrorist detonators masquerading as innocent travelers, but the real masterminds are far from the fray. The on-board terrorists are determined to detonate the device as the plane approaches Beijing –striking a huge blow at their own perceived rivals in the struggle for regional supremacy while making it seem that America and the West is at fault -- embroiling the USA and her allies into a regional war which they estimate that their faction will win. The civilian passengers are acceptable collateral to the plotters – and so are the millions of residents of sprawling Beijing.

Director Turner and his colleagues have only forty-eight hours to come up with some kind of solution. The frenetic, principled and cynical debate between technologists, military, security agencies and politicians of several countries – monitored by a group of Deep State Globalists provide the dramatic counterpoint to the fate of hostages and thousands of other innocent civilians.

The Joint Chiefs' special aide gives Director Turner the surprise and shock of his professional life when he reveals Ultimate Control, the astonishing post 9/11 special weapon that the USA has developed. The USA's Drone Command, at the behest of the US Government, can take remote control of any commercial jet, anywhere in the world. That's the first surprise.

The even bigger surprise is that Ultimate Control also allows Drone Command to release a deadly gas aboard the plane – killing innocents and terrorist bomb-detonating teams alike or increase the altitude of the aircraft in order to deplete the oxygen supply of the unsuspecting crew and passengers. The shock is that the President and his advisors, now aware of the power of Ultimate Control are so spooked by the possibility of negative publicity of ordering the death of the passengers that they panic – do they sacrifice the plane and save Beijing?

Can they keep their nerve and let Turner and his colleagues find a way to save the passengers and avert a major international incident and a full-scale regional war?

You can guarantee that the Malaysian security services are not fully on board with the idea of sacrificing the mainly Asian and Muslim passengers – and Turner, a moral man committed to protect the innocent understands their concerns. Especially when a last-minute call reveals that his own son and new bride are passengers on the doomed flight.

Key elements of this story are taken from actual confidential briefings and from currently-circulating conspiracy theories related to an actual recent high-profile global event which has shocked and mystified the world's media and many, but not all, of the world's security agencies. According to these briefings, Ultimate Control is real, current and powerful. It has been deployed in a real-life terror situation: it is presumed that no passengers survived.

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