DAISY SCARLETT

A woman is pulled from the boot of a car on a Spanish clifftop. She's lost teeth and is a bloody mess. Masked gunmen are hell-bent on killing her. Miraculously surviving a shoot-out and a breakneck car chase, resulting in many deaths, the woman is revealed to be British Secret Intelligence Officer Daisy Scarlett.

 

Daisy knows her guns as she does her fine wines. In fact, she loves a drink, which is mainly due to her strained relationship with her alcoholic father, her boss - the head of MI6. Her mother is a whistle-blowing conspiracy theorist, so it's of no wonder Daisy is torn between finding out the truth on behalf of the people or pleasing her father and the State.

 

Bilker Coot Pharmaceuticals is a global healthcare company with their own private military defense team, led by a psychotic ex member of the SAS. In the midst of a seventy billion pound take-over, they need to shake a recent academic review of a failed flu vaccine that cost the UK government a billion pounds.

 

Teaming with a Chinese Intelligence Agent, Daisy is assigned to track down Bilker Coot's lead virologist who has gone on the run with a disturbing biological weapon, however all is not as it appears to be for female intelligence officer, Daisy Scarlett.

 

From the writer of 'Old Habits' and 'My name is not Jacob Ramsay', 'Daisy Scarlett' is an international espionage action thriller with universal appeal.



Ben Trebilcook is a screenwriter and producer. The son of a District Nurse and a long-serving City of London Police officer, commended for bravery and awarded the Freedom of the City of London, Trebilcook grew up around those who worked in law enforcement and espionage around the globe.



Born in 1975, in Royal Greenwich, Trebilcook knew from a very young age he wanted to work in the film industry. First seeking a special effects career, he soon decided against it, after awkwardly entangling a model's beautiful long hair in a ceiling-suspended vacuum cleaner during a shampoo commercial. Trebilcook, whose elder brothers followed their father into a police profession, found writing was less hazardous. He did, however, idolise his father, who had been machine-gunned by armed robbers, stabbed and even blown up by the IRA. When the Bruce Willis movie 'Die Hard' was released in 1988, he thought it could actually be based on his own reluctant-hero dad. He focused on the action genre, with his ultimate goal to write a 'Die Hard' movie for Bruce Willis. Having begun a career in producing and writing for the screen, penning a previous draft of 'Mission: Impossible 3' and an acclaimed 'Die Hard 6' spec, (Old Habits Die Hard), Trebilcook was sought by a friend to work to work within the education service, managing the behaviour of permanently excluded teens, deemed the most challenging in South London. Most were gang-members and refugees from war-torn countries. He based his first novel, ' My name is not Jacob Ramsay', on his early experiences working in a pupil referral unit.



Having free-lanced for national newspapers and film magazines and had a column for various movie websites, Trebilcook had several near-miss screenwriting success goals. Global attention, however, arrived recently when he penned a speculative screenplay entitled 'Old Habits Die Hard', a potential sixth and final 'Die Hard' story, with Willis' character, John McClane. The story centred on McClane being invited to Tokyo by the Nakatomi Corporation to be commended for bravery in saving 36 lives from the original movie. The story was based on his original script 'Big in Japan' and his novel 'Old Habits'. He developed a 'Die Hard' prequel TV show with Fox's FX Channel in 2007, based on the early life of John McClane as a rookie NYPD cop. Trebilcook is represented by WME / IMG China, working on two action thrillers and a Hong Kong set show for a major streaming service. In London, he heads the judging panel for the Rob Knox Film Festival, attempting to make people more aware of knife-crime and encouraging the creativity of young people. Ben lives in Essex, on the coast, with his partner Jenni and son Finn. Ben Trebilcook can be followed on Twitter by the handle @BenTrebilcook