No Immediate Danger
Genre(s): Mystery/Suspense/Thriller
Logline:
A self-centered journalist discovers her compassion and integrity when opportunism pulls her into the center of a tragedy.
Synopsis:
Cassie Evans promised herself she'd be in the big leagues by the age of 25. But here she is at 28, covering zoning disputes and soap box derbies at the Nanaimo Citizen on Vancouver Island. When a corpse washes up at the Indian reserve, stark naked and painted purple, Cassie knows this could be the ticket to her dream job -- the crime beat at the Vancouver Herald.
As Cassie pieces together clues -- some of which arrive a little too conveniently -- the evidence points to a band of peaceniks squatting at the edge of the reserve to protest the US Navy's submarines visiting the Base across the bay. Poking around the reserve, Cassie discovers five tiny white crosses in an overgrown cemetery. Maybe the peaceniks were involved in these deaths and the stranger discovered it. She shares her speculation with her boyfriend, Rod, who's second in command at the naval base, and with her friend Sue-Li, the local coroner. When a submarine sailor turns up dead in an alley soon after Cassie questioned him, her investigation takes a new and far more dangerous turn.
In the end, she has no job, no proof, no credibility, and definitely no shot at the Herald. But she has her life and the truth -- at least part of it. From a shack on the reserve she will continue the research that has cost at least two people their lives. And if she has to write fiction to tell the truth, then so be it.
Author Info:
KIM GOLDBERG is an award-winning journalist and author specializing in environmental and Native issues. Her 1991 book Submarine Dead Ahead: Waging Peace In America's Nuclear Community details the efforts of a Vancouver Island peace group to end the US. Navy's nuclear submarine visits to Nanoose Bay. She is the 1992 winner of the Goodwin's Award for Excellence in Alternative Journalism and an active member of the Writers Guild of Canada, The Writers' Union of Canada, the Canadian Association of Journalists, and the Periodical Writers Association of Canada. She has a second screenplay available - an environmental thriller set in British Columbia's ancient rainforest. Latest Book: Where to See Wildlife on Vancouver Island.
KIM GOLDBERG, Writer
35 Prideaux Street,
Nanaimo, BC
V9R 2M3 CANADA
(250) 741-8577
(250) 741-8577 Fax
goldberg@freenet.carleton.ca