USED

by Mark Franley

Have you ever wanted to play the ultimate game with the power over life and death?
In total disbelief Inspectors Köstner and Groß watch helplessly as thousands of people are drawn in to actively participate in the carefully laid plans of a fanatical kidnapper. With clever manipulation he relentlessly uses the callous sensation hungry media to give normal people the ability to make decisions with fatal repercussions.
As the investigation proceeds the case becomes less and less transparent, the borders between the kidnapper and his victims more and more blurred.

No one is completely innocent it seems and search for the truth becomes a nightmare.

219 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2014

About the author

English version:

Mark Franley was born in Nuremburg, Southern Germany, in 1972. Which is where he still lives with his wife and pet dog Buddy. Though his career as an author only began in his late thirties, his first thriller "Heuchler" (Charlatans) made it straight into the top ten of the German Amazon Kindle charts.
The main character, Detective Mike Köstner, enjoyed such popularity that the following books in the series, "Benutzt" (Used) and "Karla", both reached the Amazon top five within a couple of days.

Following the considerable success in Germany, the first instalment of the Detective Chief Inspector Köstner serial appears at the start of 2014 in English, with the title "Charlatans" and the Italian version of this book will follow by the middle of the year.

The German edition of "Heuchler" is also being produced by audible.de as an audio book, which will be available in Germany in the autumn of 2014.



Deutsche Version:

Mark Franley wurde im Jahr 1972 in Nürnberg, Deutschland, geboren, wo er auch heute noch mit seiner Frau und dem Hund Buddy lebt und arbeitet. Obwohl seine Karriere als Schriftsteller erst mit Ende dreißig begann, schaffte es bereits sein erster Thriller „Heuchler“, ohne Umwege in Amazons deutsche Top 10 Kindle-Charts.
Die Hauptfigur des Werkes, Mike Köstner, erfreute sich so großer Beliebtheit, dass auch die beiden Nachfolgebände „Benutzt“ und „Karla“ innerhalb von wenigen Tagen in den Top 5 zu finden waren.

Aufgrund des großen Erfolges in Deutschland erscheint Anfang 2014 der erste Band der „Kommissar Köstner“-Reihe, zunächst in englischer Sprache (Titel: Charlatans), und Mitte des Jahres auch in italienischer Sprache.
Außerdem wird „Heuchler“ durch audible.de als Hörbuch produziert und voraussichtlich im Herbst 2014 auf dem deutschen Markt erscheinen.