Bounceback
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The workers see Garcia but continue their work. He climbs
the stairs and talks to Emelio. Jesus watches them talk in
between welds.
INT. LAND CRUISER - DAY
Shorty drives, Julie the passenger. She sips a drink.
SHORTY
So today you make a thousand dollars all
for you, chica! How many Pedro’s presents
you have?
JULIE
Eight
SHORTY
Bueno. We pick up our little friend and
you take her to the safe house. Just a few
minutes drive into El Norte.
JULIE
Yeah, I know where. I’m just worried about
the border. What about my Mom and the
warrant?
SHORTY
Chica, no! You’ll see, it will be all good.
Her warrant is not federal, these customs
guys know nothing. You cannot be afraid,
they smell it. Here, time for this.
Shorty takes a pill from his pocket. Julie swallows it.
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About the Book
After the drug-related kidnapping of her teenage daughter, Mona must alter from cowering San Diego housewife to vengeful Tijuana nocturnal narco hunter in hopes of finding her daughter alive. She must gain strength and skills to locate her daughter by shedding her crippling fears. Along the way, she is beaten down and weakened, but an uninvited cathartic encounter with a stranger incubates the transformation she must painfully grow through to become the aggressive deadly force needed to save her daughter. Complications arise when she is jailed in Tijuana for murder and gets picked as a pawn by dirty cops to lead a drug operation overthrow. Ultimately, she must eliminate all drug ring kidnappers and dirty cops or she and her daughter face certain death.
About the Author
Michael Hollins is a screenwriter from the UCLA Writers Program. He began learning creative writing from Victor Miller (Original Screenwriter of Friday the 13th) and, after attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has used technical writing and hands-on mechanical skills to develop programs to destroy wholesale chemical weapons, environmental cleanup of contaminated nuclear sites, and glassification of high level plutonium wastes. He presently is working with International Physicists to develop clean and limitless energy for world consumption for the next thousand years. BOUNCEBACK was first written as a screenplay and is in active Hollywood circulation along with THE ICE, a 19th century seafaring story, and PLASMA, a science fiction journey. He lives in Orange County, California with his wife, Susan, and they enjoy watching the creative growth of their plethora of children, step-children, and grand kids.