SYNOPSIS
bullets, BOOZE, blood & broads...
Rock Bottom’s set in the future after the “Bright Light” has destroyed society as we know it- no satellites, no government, no hope. In the void following the apocalypse the ruthless and conniving have taken power. With no official currency anymore the only way to get what you need is to trade. Whoever controls the black market, controls the city. Guns, booze and bullets are the currency of this new world and BLAKE controls ‘em all. Blake’s brilliance and dark, disturbed mind are on par with Heath Leger’s Joker. Enter JAKE, an ex-cop, a good guy with a pure but wounded heart. Jake’s going to set the world right by eliminating the kingpin of our dystopia. There are no heroes anymore but someone has to stand up for what is right and Jake knows he’s the only one who can do it. In the cold and dark shadows of Blake’s warehouse a sensational fire fight leaves seven dead and several others wounded. But Jake hasn’t shot the notorious Blake he’s mistakenly killed Blake’s brother WAKE, a priest and one of the few good guys left in this desperate world. Jake’s devastated and Blake will be out for revenge, BIG TIME! (Bullets are like broads, some you never forget). After weeks on the lamb, Jake slips back into town determined to kill Blake. He stops at Rick’s Bar for one last shot of courage and it’s there he meets ALEXIA VANDERCROFT. Sassy, smart, dangerously gorgeous. She says she’s a reporter but she shoots like Uma Thurman, sings like Billy Holiday and has a body to die for...and he just might. Gunfire rings out in the streets and a pack of mangy characters plough into the bar chased by a shower of lead. Caught in the crossfire, Jake and Alex end up protecting this cagey bunch of misfits who’re mysterious as our two heroes. Bullets start flyin’ and people start dyin’ and everyone’s a suspect. As the stakes and the body count rise, Jake begins to fall for Alex. They put their heads together (other parts too) to take on Tommy-gun toting gangsters, futuristic killerspy-drones, a sexy ballet assassin and a lethal un-armed man they call torpedo. In the ultimately deadly conflict with the guy behind it all – Blake, the whodunit and who’sdone-who finally comes to light. Jake’s shocked: Alex is a Nu-Fed trying to reinstate power over the people with a new currency solution-diamonds. But Blake’s one step ahead; he’s amassing diamonds too. He’s been moving them in cases of illegal booze (“rocks in the bottom” get it?). There was a case of that booze and diamonds in the bar. Ah... so that’s what everyone was after! But the really killer surprise is that Jake & Wake and yes, Blake are in fact all brothers and a long ago crime of passion is wedged between them. After a cloud of gunfire (so many bullets...so little time), Blake takes one right between the eyes but Alex is the one to shoot the kingpin. She’s saved Jake from killing his only remaining brother. They’re in love…Now, about those missing diamonds…
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