Synopsis
Tampa attorney Juan Oneca is preparing for his wedding when two young election-fraud investigators, Lucy and Sean from the Fair and Free Foundation, walk into his office warning of a massive scheme to rig Florida's upcoming election using nano-particle-modified voting machine motherboards. Minutes after the meeting, a Russian hitman ambushes them outside Juan's office, and Juan's quick-drawing paralegal Nancy helps drive off the shooter. Juan soon realizes his fiancée Dominica Bianca has vanished from her morning beach walk, kidnapped by Russian operatives who leave her car unlocked with her phone and keys inside. Her cousin Annie, tracking Dominica via a secretly implanted chip beneath a matching gator tattoo, gives chase north toward Georgia before being captured herself.
The kidnapping is orchestrated by Brighton Beach mob captain Hoza Mogilevich on orders from Moscow boss Vladimir 'Tarzan' Solonik, who is in turn employed by The Club — four aging, ultra-wealthy globalists identified only as Mr. North, Mr. South, Mr. East, and Mr. West. Playing bridge on a Caribbean island estate, The Club has spent over a century engineering political revolutions, financial crises, and now plans to seize American elections. Their scheme, Project Florida, involves affixing nano-particle stickers to voting machine monitors during transport, allowing remote WiFi manipulation of vote tallies. Corrupt U.S. Representatives Curt Sanders and Maxine Smith have quietly legislated the machine refits through a rider buried in the Clean Plastic Bill, with the work performed in China by a corporation financially linked to their campaign donors.
Juan's Foundation mobilizes across the country. In Las Vegas, Jimmy Kohl neutralizes a Russian tail with detective Rick Rizzo. In San Francisco, Mac Streeter nearly gets pushed off a seaside cliff by a black SUV. In Washington DC, Carol Finley and Kitiona Tuafa — aided by political blogger Carl Grandson and a congressional aide — trace campaign contributions back to the Janewatschild Holdings European bancorp, exposing the financial pipeline feeding Sanders and Smith. Meanwhile Dominica's father Nickolas uses his Gambino family connections to place his union drivers on the delivery trucks, allowing The Club's operatives posing as hitchhikers to board and apply the tampered nano-stickers undetected. Fair and Free operatives covertly video nine of the truck break-ins, gathering the evidence needed for legal action.
The kidnapping spirals out of control when the three Russian soldiers holding Dominica and Annie in a St. Simons Island, Georgia safe house decide to freelance a ten-million-dollar ransom demand, defying Hoza's original deal with Nickolas. The stocky woman, backed by the savage Sur 13 gang, escalates the threat by carving a piece of tattooed skin from Annie's thigh to send to Nickolas as a proof-of-life warning. The Foundation pieces together the full conspiracy: Dominica was taken to coerce Nickolas, the machines are already tampered, and The Club has greenlit killing anyone who interferes.
With the Foundation converging on Tampa, Nickolas and his brother Frank coordinate a rescue operation through their Gambino and Calabrian mafia contacts, while Juan pursues the legal and political exposure of Project Florida. Fair and Free's video evidence of the truck break-ins, combined with the Foundation's financial tracing of The Club's funding network through corrupt congresspeople, sets the stage for a confrontation on multiple fronts — a mob-versus-Russian showdown in Georgia for the girls' rescue and a legal and political battle to expose and invalidate the tampered election machines before Florida's votes are cast.
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Logline
When Russian operatives kidnap a Tampa attorney's mob-connected fiancée to blackmail her father into rigging Florida's voting machines, Juan Oneca must mobilize his vigilante legal foundation to expose a century-old globalist conspiracy before the election—and her life—are stolen.
Short synopsis
Tampa attorney Juan Oneca is days from his wedding when two young investigators warn him of a scheme to rig Florida's election using nano-tampered voting machines. Hours later his fiancée Dominica vanishes, abducted by Russian operatives working for a mob captain and a shadowy cabal of four billionaires known only as The Club. As Juan's Fair and Free Foundation races across the country tracing dirty campaign money and truck-borne sabotage, Dominica's mafia family mounts its own rescue while her captors go rogue with ransom demands. The threads converge on Florida, where a legal exposure campaign and a mob-versus-Russian shootout must both succeed before the vote is cast.
Extended synopsis
Tampa attorney Juan Oneca runs a scrappy legal foundation, Fair and Free, that goes after corruption most lawyers won't touch. Days before his wedding, two young investigators arrive with evidence of Project Florida: a scheme to rig the state's election by embedding nano-particle stickers on voting machine motherboards, allowing remote vote manipulation. Minutes later a Russian hitman opens fire outside his office. That night, Juan's fiancée Dominica—daughter of Gambino-connected Nickolas Bianca—disappears from a beach walk, her locked car left open with her phone inside. A GPS chip hidden beneath her matching gator tattoo lets her cousin Annie track the kidnappers north into Georgia, until Annie herself is captured.
Why it adapts
This book is built for a poster and a trailer: a gator tattoo that's secretly a tracking chip, four nameless billionaires playing bridge on a private island while they engineer American elections, a nano-sticker sabotage operation hidden inside a Clean Plastic Bill rider. Each city thread supplies its own contained set-piece—a cliffside SUV attack in San Francisco, a Vegas tail-and-turn, a DC paper trail through shell banking entities—giving a limited series distinct episodic identities while the central kidnapping clock keeps tension constant.
Format recommendation
Limited Series
The story runs five simultaneous investigative threads across Las Vegas, San Francisco, DC, Tampa, and Georgia, plus a mob-versus-Russian hostage arc that needs room to escalate—this is ensemble, serialized plotting, not a single-protagonist feature arc. An 8-10 episode limited series lets each city's set-piece and each Foundation operative earn a spotlight while building to a synchronized finale, without gutting the book's scope.
Comp titles
The Night Agent
Same DNA: a ticking-clock conspiracy thriller built around a corrupt institutional plot, told through multiple converging investigators racing a deadline.
Jack Ryan (Amazon)
Globe-spanning political conspiracy with a righteous protagonist, shadowy financiers, and field teams working separate fronts toward one exposure.
Ozark
Mob-family entanglement in a sun-drenched American setting, where legitimate professionals get pulled into organized crime logistics and violence.
Your Honor
A legal protagonist forced to work alongside mafia power to save a loved one, blurring the line between justice and vigilantism.
Reacher
Pulpy, muscular vigilante-justice tone and a network of capable operatives dispatched to handle threats the system won't.
Audience
Adults 25-54 who watch conspiracy/political thrillers and mob dramas—viewers of The Night Agent, Ozark, and Jack Ryan; also appeals to true-crime/election-integrity-adjacent audiences drawn to topical, ripped-from-the-anxiety-headlines premises.
Tone
propulsive
conspiratorial
pulpy
violent
topical
multi-threaded
Adaptation Readiness Score
74 / 100
Character distinctiveness
72
Strengths
- Poster-ready high concept — election-security conspiracy fused with mob/Russian kidnapping thriller gives buyers an easy elevator pitch
- Naturally episodic, multi-city structure (Tampa, Vegas, SF, DC, Georgia) with distinct POV operatives maps cleanly onto a limited-series 'strike team' format
- Strong genre setpieces already built in — cliffside attack, safe-house torture, truck-heist surveillance — give directors plenty to shoot
Adaptation friction
- The shadowy financial-cabal naming convention (a global banking dynasty pulling strings behind a 'Club' of four) risks reading as an unintentional antisemitic trope to buyers/reviewers and would need careful reworking before packaging
- Ensemble is large and geographically scattered — without a tight POV hierarchy early on, a pilot could feel plot-first rather than character-first
- Tone swings between grounded political-thriller realism and pulpy device (nano-particle vote-hacking stickers, chip-in-tattoo tracking) that will need a consistent visual/logic language to avoid feeling campy
Listed on 2026-06-16
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