Remmy Overbrook is a bad-ass-take-no-prisoners high-compression journalist whose courageous investigations into global rare earth mineral markets and extraction corporations loops her into a perilous vortex of lethal paradoxes: tell the story or run like hell?  - real people, places, actual events.

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In this timely and gripping tale of corporate greed and political intrigue by the award-winning author and investigative journalist, Paul VanDevelder, Remmy Overbrook, a courageous and sometimes brazen wire-service reporter, and photographer, Iko Eze, navigate a perilous landscape in Nigeria's Delta region, documenting the genocide of Ogoni people and environmental atrocities while narrowly escaping life-threatening encounters with paramilitary militias being manipulated by invisible puppeteers in far-distant boardrooms and capital cities. Not so lucky is the legendary human rights activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other activists, who are executed in a gruesome display of cruelty and power in Lagos by General Sanni Abacha, sparking international outrage and worldwide media attention. In New York, Alex Moon, a brilliant ‘part-Paris-fashion-week-part-powwow-princess’ Choctaw executive at Ajax-Albin Amalgamated (AAA), grapples with blowback from AAA’s corporate decisions while the multiple story arcs entrain a constellation of players, including Chaz Coltrane (aka Chainsaw) Remmy’s mentor/colleague on hiatus in Montana who discovers environmental contamination linked to AAA's gold mining practices on the Kootenai-Salish Indian reservation where a D-9 bulldozer turns up the bones of children in a secret graveyard left over from an incinerated BIA boarding school. Chaz rescues Remmy when she's left for dead in a violent encounter with Nigerian border guards. The story pivots to a Senate hearing where the US President is monitoring corporate violations of Native American treaty rights - brought into the bright lights by a brilliant attorney from the UN's International Treaty Council. Remmy and Chaz make a daring escape from Ghana after being chased through the night streets of Accra by assailants from AAA's private army of thugs. Throughout this thrilling, multi-layered screenplay are woven themes of journalistic integrity, corporate power, and global political intrigue swirling in blood-letting conflicts around genocidal political alliances, rare earth minerals and vanishing human rights.