“A traumatized Antarctic biologist stumbles onto a government conspiracy to weaponize space and silence climate science — and must risk everything to save the planet from both human corruption and solar catastrophe. A gripping blend of military thriller and sci-fi.”
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KEYWORDS: screenplay, thriller, action, environmental catastrophe, penguins, Antarctica, polar ice cap, global warming
135 pages 6x9 Trade book Available as a Paperback, PDF book, or ebook Read a 15-page preview at Blurb.com
About the Book
In the frozen silence of Antarctica, wildlife biologist Waco thought he had found the perfect hiding place from the world — and from himself. But when he witnesses the brutal destruction of a Greenpeace vessel by a mysterious black destroyer near a restricted South Pacific zone, his self-imposed exile is shattered. What he uncovers is a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of the U.S. military: a covert, space-based laser weapons system, code-named HELSTAF, buried deep within the Antarctic ice and operated by shadowy forces determined to suppress the catastrophic truth about global warming and ozone depletion.
Joined by Cherokee, a tenacious journalism student who refuses to let the story die, Waco races against a cataclysmic solar flare that threatens to melt the polar ice caps and drown the planet. Their only hope: trigger a volcanic eruption at Mount Erebus and use nature itself as a shield. Part military thriller, part climate fiction, Fatherland is a propulsive, high-stakes adventure about the courage it takes to speak truth to power — even when the world is literally on fire.
Target Audience
- Adult readers (18+) of military and political thrillers
- Fans of climate fiction (“cli-fi”) and eco-conscious narratives
- Readers drawn to conspiracy-driven suspense (in the tradition of Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton)
- Audiences interested in whistleblower and anti-establishment storylines
Key Themes
- Government conspiracy and military-industrial corruption
- Climate change, ozone depletion, and environmental urgency
- Truth versus propaganda / media manipulation and “fake news”
- PTSD, trauma, and reluctant heroism
- Individual moral responsibility in the face of systemic power
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Further Reading
Visit the author’s website Inviticus.com for more screenplays (synopses, one-pagers, pitch deck, reviews), including the latest drafts.
A Table Reading
This screenplay (named HELSTAF at the time) won the Wildsound Feature Screenplay contest in the spring of 2020. Their grand prize was for professional actors to read the script and to make a video out of it. Here it is !!