What if the US President kidnapped your family?
Posted: 2012-05-21 01:02am
I've been recently bitten by the following plot concept for a sci-fi/thriller-type story:
The hero is the Vice President of the United States of America. While they're discussing business as usual, the President tells the VP that he wants to launch a genocidal invasion against some Third World country to control its oil. The appalled VP alerts the mainstream media about his colleague's plans, therefore exposing them to the general public. To blackmail the VP into retracting his story, the President kidnaps his wife and child and hides them in a secret base. The police don't believe the VP when he calls them about the President's kidnapping, so he has to break his family out himself. Helping him is a vindictive ex-general who knows where, or rather when, the President's secret base is:
Spoiler
I really like this idea, but some other people I've shared it with say it's really stupid. Could it be done well?
EDIT: NM, it really is dumb.
The hero is the Vice President of the United States of America. While they're discussing business as usual, the President tells the VP that he wants to launch a genocidal invasion against some Third World country to control its oil. The appalled VP alerts the mainstream media about his colleague's plans, therefore exposing them to the general public. To blackmail the VP into retracting his story, the President kidnaps his wife and child and hides them in a secret base. The police don't believe the VP when he calls them about the President's kidnapping, so he has to break his family out himself. Helping him is a vindictive ex-general who knows where, or rather when, the President's secret base is:
Spoiler
I really like this idea, but some other people I've shared it with say it's really stupid. Could it be done well?
EDIT: NM, it really is dumb.