When a military experiment goes horribly wrong and turns his entire
platoon gay, the deeply religious, washed-up General Newman Ginger
must learn to love his platoon and himself in order to survive the
spiritual, professional and actual war zone he has just entered...
General Newman Ginger wants nothing more than to fall asleep each
night with a bottle of whiskey and a good war story, but his life
of bitter solitude is thrown into chaos when he is ordered to act
as a lab rat for top secret weapons testing. The year is 1999, and
a kinder, gentler army is developing non-lethal weapons to subdue
enemy soldiers humanely. To avoid a court martial, General Ginger
agrees to act as a test subject for one of these "soft" weapons: an
aphrodisiac bomb. The bomb is supposed to sexually arouse the enemy
in order to distract him on the battlefield. However, what appears
to be an accidental miscalculation muddles the experiment and the
bomb turns the entire makeshift platoon gay. Horrified by his new
sexuality, General Ginger begs to be expelled from the platoon to
return to his empty but familiar life, to ride out his remaining
days in denial. Despite close ties to military brass he is remanded
to top-secret barracks where the gay platoon is being held for
observation and testing. As platoon members begin to develop
mysterious side effects, the arch-Christian Secretary of Defense
sends them on a suicide mission in the mountains of a Middle
Eastern war zone, and sends warplanes to finish them off should
they survive the armed militias and devastating terrain. While
attempting to go AWOL, General Ginger stumbles upon the truth-
there is no mission. Suddenly offered the chance to escape, and
with warplanes bearing down on them, he must choose between his new
gay platoon and his past as a loyal, straight, Christian soldier.
Love Bomb and the Pink Platoon is the debut novel from
award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker Ryan Gielen. His work has
been covered by and appeared in Filmmaker Magazine, Gawker, Slate,
BookBaby, IndieReader, EBookFriendly, IndieWire, The Washington
Post, The Baltimore Sun, CBS and hundreds of local and regional
news outlets.
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