The
place: America. The time: closer than we may realize.
Unemployment
is in high double-digits. The stench of violent discontent smokes the air. The 1930s
Great Depression all over . . .
. . .
but yesterday is now today, the 21st Century . . .
Arch
and Tess Uglias are blue-collar residents of the desolate Rust Belt city of
Gary, Indiana. Arch, an unemployed auto-plant worker and ex-race car driver,
and Tess, an unemployed nurse, are both staring homelessness and starvation in
face.
Meanwhile,
Frank Regis, an aging disciple of the legendary bank robber Willie Sutton, is
masterminding a string of bank robberies throughout Indiana. The Regis gang is
a fractious collage of professional criminals, like Frank, and formerly law-abiding
folks who have turned to crime out of desperation.
After
one of their drivers is killed during a getaway, the Regis gang goes in search
of a replacement, a road that leads them to Arch Uglias. Though a law-abiding
citizen and square guy his whole life, Arch, like some of the other gang
members, feels compelled to take the wheel. Tess meanwhile, becomes an
outspoken, unwilling, uncooperative part of the package.
From
there, it’s a boisterous, bawdy, and dangerous drive through a desperate world
for the Regis mob, from the ruins of the Midwest to the ruins of the West Coast
with ruthless law enforcement in pursuit and mistrust and murder stirring among
them. In the end, the war that has been raging around the edges suddenly draws
them into its bloody vortex, leading to a fierce climax of double cross and
desperate escape.
The Uglies an original screenplay by
Thomas Burchfield (Dragon’s Ark, Whackers), takes the same wild roads as
such classics as Bonnie and Clyde and
Sam Peckinpah’s The Getaway. It is a
wild and wooly saga about crime and pursuit, friendship and survival. It’s also
the story of people who realize the need to stick together as the world around them
crumbles to pieces.
Available exclusively in e-book editions at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, the Apple Store, the Sony Reader Store, and Scrib'd.
Copyright
2012 by Ambler House Publishing
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