'The Fresco' Synopsis

Written by Chris O'Loughlin

Lewis Boags loathes Johnny Sambuca, for Johnny manufactures and controls the supply of the most popular synthetic drug on the market. The drug is called Blacksun and Boags wants the formula.

After having a shipment of Blacksun stolen from him by Boags, Sambuca orders that sixteen of Boags' men be killed. The orders are carried out in imaginative and gruesome ways.

Sambuca also decides to have Boags himself eliminated, and enlists the aid of Sister De Large, the abbess of The Order of The Severed Artery. A group of nuns who are involved in Sambuca's drug racket. Nuns who also hire themselves out as assassins.

Unfortunately the assassination fails and this causes a rift between the nuns and Sambuca's organisation.

Meanwhile a Stranger has arrived in town. The Stranger is hired to work on a decaying fresco that is located inside a nightclub run by Magdaline Jones. Magdaline is a tough middle aged woman who has managed to ward off all attempts by Sambuca and Boags to take over her club.

After a series of events, that culminate in Sambuca arranging to have Sister De Large assassinated, both he and Boags are conned into going to Magdaline's nightclub. Here the Stranger reveals that Sambuca, Boags, and himself, are in fact blood brothers. Identical brothers that were separated at birth.

Naturally they don't believe him so the Stranger produces documents that prove his claim. He also reveals that he knows about their darkest secrets.

It appears that Sambuca and Boags both under went plastic surgery. Sambuca to repair his face after being disfigured in an acid attack. And Boags to escape justice after having raped and murdered a school girl.

Having revealed all, the Stranger now dies in a hail of bullets as a hit squad of nuns burst into the nightclub. Sambuca, Boags, their henchmen, Jones, and some unfortunate patrons, are now forced to fight for their lives.

After a savage blood bath Sambuca manages to escape, little knowing that Boags has also escaped and is on his trail. As is Sister De Large.

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Chris O'Loughlin 1999
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