The Art Marvik mystery thrillers, gripping, fast-paced, action-packed
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What makes Art Marvik tick?
Marvik's
life changed when at the age of eleven in 1991 he was sent to boarding
school in England by his parents, Professor Dan Coulter a renowned
oceanographer and Dr Eerika Marvik an equally renowned marine
archeologist. Prior to that Marvik had travelled the world with them on
their research vessel where he was home taught. He viewed his dismissal
as abandonment and their deaths in 1997 from an underwater earth tremour
while diving in the Straits of Malacca with anger which lay buried deep
within him. As soon as he was seventeen he enlisted in the Royal
Marines and put his parents, their life and their wealth behind him.
Langton, the psychiatrist who treated him after a head injury sustained
in combat, said Marvik was running away from his emotions, maybe he was,
but as far as he was concerned he would continue running, the past was
the past, except he begins to find on his dismissal from the Marines
because of his injuries that the past has a nasty habit of catching up
with you.
Marvik is very much an action-man, fearless, fit but with a
deep-seated vulnerability. In Civy Street he's like a fish out of water.
He thought he’d be able to adjust and carve out a new career for
himself, preferably on the sea, but his first job as a private maritime
security operative goes very wrong when the luxury motor cruiser he was
travelling on and had been detailed to guard, gets attacked by pirates
in the Indian Ocean, and Marvik finds himself with a bullet in his
shoulder and the boat’s owner dead. He’d failed on his first mission in
civilian life, and the first in the series SILENT RUNNING opens with him
reeling from it.
Marvik has isolated himself in a remote cottage on the Isle of
Wight uncertain of the future for the first time in his life. Lacking in
confidence, hesitant and adrift he despises himself for being so weak.
Even when a former marine colleague, Special Services Intelligence
Officer, Shaun Strathen, renews Marvik’s acquaintance and asks for his
help to locate a missing research scientist, Marvik fails to find him in
a ruined cottage on the Isle of Wight coast. Strathen has also been
injured in combat in Afghanistan and has been invalided out of the
marines. He’s set himself up as a specialist security consultant to
businesses and even with a prosthetic leg seems to have adjusted to life
better than Marvik. Sick of himself Marvik returns on his motorboat to
his rented cottage only to find he has a visitor, a former girlfriend
and a navy nurse, Charlotte Churley, who insists she’s being followed.
Marvik is ready to dismiss this as a symptom of overwork until Charlotte
goes missing. Then Marvik finds he has the chance to work undercover
for the UK's Police National Intelligence Marine Squad on dangerous
assignments, which he relishes but there's still that itch that needs to
be scratched. How can he lay his parents ghosts to rest and move forward?
After leaving the Marines, Art Marvik, a former
Special Boat Services Officer with the Commandos goes undercover to work
for the UK's National Intelligence Marine Squad. His three missions
with the squad take him into dangerous and deadly waters as he seeks to
find lethal killers whose crimes are steeped in the past.
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Undercover investigator Art Marvik is tasked to find the truth behind a fifty year old mystery but as he unravels its dark and dangerous secrets someone is determined to stop him from ever revealing them.
"The sort of book where you can’t look away for a second, or you’ll be
sunk, so to speak. Pauline Rowson is the queen of misdirection in this
outing for former marine Art Marvik."
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Undercover investigator, Art Marvik faces a desperate battle to save others from a ruthless assassin who will stop at nothing in order to protect the secret of the Mary Jo’s last voyage from ever being exposed.
"Plenty of action, I didn't want to put the book down. A good read for mystery/ thriller fans." Net GalleyCOMING March 2021 - Marvik Mystery thriller (4) DEAD SEA
When Marvik visits his safe deposit box in his London bank and discovers that a three-and-a-half inch floppy disk he had placed there a few weeks previously has been stolen he is surprised and deeply troubled. What’s more it has been taken only the day before his arrival by a man Marvik has never heard of. Puzzled and disturbed Marvik is left cursing his reluctance to ask his former Royal Marine colleague, intelligence and cyber expert, Shaun Strathen, to open the disk and reveal its contents when he first discovered it in the possession of murdered marine archaeologist, Sarah Redburn. Now its theft indicates that Sarah was killed because of its highly toxic contents. Convinced it holds the key to the truth behind the deaths of his parents, Marvik, with Strathen’s aid, sets out to track down the thief. As they follow a trail of abduction and murder it soon becomes clear that the computer disk holds the key to a secret that a ruthless killer is determined must never be revealed.
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