Behind the Character - Pauline Rowson talks about her crime busting hero, Art Marvik

Soon though he is launched on a new and dangerous career working as an undercover investigator for the UK's National Intelligence Marine Squad (NIMS) headed by Detective Superintendent Philip Crowder. Marvik is aided in his investigations by his former Royal Marine colleague, communications, surveillance and IT expert, amputee, Shaun Strathen.
Marvik’s task is to go in to investigations comparatively cold with minimal information from Crowder even though Crowder knows more. But Marvik’s role is to ask questions, to stir up trouble, to provoke a killer into the open and to risk his life in doing so. Marvik is no stranger to staring death in the face. He’s been doing it all his adult life.
His biggest fear is being injured and incapacitated, being weak and having to rely on others. Fiercely independent and resilient since the age of seventeen when his parents - his mother a renowned marine archaeologist and his father an equally renowned oceanographer- were killed in a underwater explosion in the Straits of Malacca, Marvik’s family became the Marines. Now that family has gone. He and Shaun Strathen are casualties of conflict.
Marvik knows the sea intimately having spent much of his life on and under it. His missions for the National Intelligence Marine Squad (NIMS) take him across the Solent and along the south coast of England, forcing him out of isolation in his remote cottage on the Isle of Wight and as the missions increase so too the danger to him personally. But Marvik is smart and tough. He can operate outside the law and does so because the job demands it. He’s not always right though. He makes mistakes, he misjudges people. Sometimes the consequences are shocking and disturbing.


The Art Marvik series has been hailed as 'having all the hallmarks of the Rowson brand - a troubled hero, the setting and atmosphere, the sailing and boats, interesting characters, and the intricate, complex plots.'
"Action fans need Marvik on their radar." Booklist
You can read about my other crime busting hero, DI Andy Horton here.
There are thirteen novels in the DI Andy Horton procedural crime series. Plus two standalone crime novels, In Cold Daylight and In For The Kill, and three Marvik MysteriesMarvik, Silent Running Dangerous Cargo and Lost Voyage.





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DECEMBER 23RD, 2017 @ 5:33:16 UTC
DECEMBER 23RD, 2017 @ 5:33:16 UTC
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