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L.M. Weeks

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Nampa, The United States

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Thriller, Suspense, Crime

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L. M. ("Mark") Weeks is the award-winning author of Bottled Lightning and Poontown. Before turning to fiction, he spent more than three decades as an international technology lawyer, advising companies from around the world on their cross-border legal matters. For more than ten years, he served as Managing Partner of the Tokyo office of the global law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.

Born in Alaska and raised in Idaho, Mark has spent nearly half his life in Japan. An International Rotary Club Scholar to Japan during high school, he later graduated from International Christian University in Tokyo before earning his law degree from Fordham University School of Law. He speaks, reads, and writes fluent Japanese.

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Anyone can enjoy this book about a true life epic quest Bob Rich’s quest to catch ten specified gamefish for the Metropolitan Tournament Hall of Fame sounds almost unreal—and yet it’s all true. Catching Big Fish: An Angler’s Challenge is filled with b ...more
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The Quiet American is a study in micro and macro moral compromises. No one is immune. We all try to justify our actions, and some of us even believe our own rationalizations without looking deeper into what actually drives us. It’s a slow, realistic, ...more
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“Now Isla Plata was to fishing as Nantucket was to whaling: a memory of a bygone era.”
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“She’d never shied away from a challenge before, no matter how loudly her self-doubt had screamed.”
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“He loved the eternal feeling of being on the water, in the zone, day after day as if time had stopped.”
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“Nicht weinen, weil sie vorüber!
Lächeln, weil sie gewesen!

English translation:
Do not cry because they are past!
Smile, because they once were!

Modern adaptation: Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
― Ludwig Jacobowski, Leuchtende Tage,

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