Mini-Series
Year: 2008
Character: Mack



Summary from the sales sheet:

BURN UP is a high-stakes conspiracy/political thriller set against the backdrop of the world’s corrupt and violent oil industry and the desperate attempts of those trying to save the planet from global warming.

We follow the charismatic Tom McConnell as he takes over Arrow Oil, an unexpected but thrilling moment in his career that quickly fades as his life begins to unravel. Tom’s world begins to shift under his feet and nothing seems to be what once was. Is his best friend and mentor now his worst enemy? Was his revered father-in-law murdered? Is his affair with Holly, Arrow’s Director of Alternate Energies, about love or manipulation? Why is a respected geologist running for his life after his colleagues were slaughtered in Saudi Arabia? How deep does the corruption and collusion between the United States government and the world’s oil barons really run? How can Tom maintain allegiance to his company and his colleagues while still protecting his children from the threat of killer storms, raging fires, unholy famines, new diseases and air not fit to breathe?

BURN UP is a unique blend of ripped-from-the-headlines facts and suspenseful storytelling, putting us on a rollercoaster ride from the blinding deserts of Saudi Arabia to the elegant mansions of London’s oil barons. We journey to the melting ice fields of Alaska and watch the fiery death of a beautiful young Inuit woman dedicated to stopping the demise of her culture. Tom is deeply shocked by the woman’s death and begins to see the problem through her eyes, realizing that he faces the hardest choices he has ever made. Can he undermine the industry on which the entire world economy depends, even when he knows doing what’s right may put his own family in jeopardy?

BURN UP delivers an eviscerating tale of the last great game; but the world is at stake and there is no turning back…one way or another, one decision or the other…will Tom…will we…make the right one?