Around the World in 80 Days . . . the Rest of the Story

by Ron Brackin

Mark Strand is mentioned just once in Jules Verne’s timeless classic, “Around the World in Eighty Days." Yet, it was he, not Phileas Fogg, who was the only man in history to rob the Bank of England. But did he? Who was Mark Strand? To solve the mystery, you must enter the deadly underworld of Victorian London, peopled with magicians and murderers, rogues and royalty. Who was Mark Strand? You are directed to inquire of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the world’s first consulting detective, and his enigmatic companion Rev. Charles Dodgson, aka Alice in Wonderland’s Lewis Carroll.

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First published March 27, 2011

About the author

The author of the international bestseller, Son of Hamas, Ron Brackin has traveled extensively in the Middle East as an investigative journalist. He was in the West Bank and Gaza during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, on assignment in Baghdad and Mosul after the fall of Iraq and more recently with the rebels and refugees of Southern Sudan and Darfur. He has contributed articles and columns to many publications, including USA Today and The Washington Times. His other books include: Sweet Persecution; Between Two Fires; Iraq, My Handiwork; Around the World in 80 Days . . . the Rest of the Story; The Gospel according to Dracula; and You and Me and the Blackthorn Tree. He was a broadcast journalist with WTOP-AM, Post-Newsweek’s all-news radio station in Washington D.C. and weekend news anchor on Metromedia’s WASH-FM. And he served as a congressional press secretary under the Reagan Administration.