Before Al Qaeda, before 9/11, the seeds of Islamic terrorism were taking hold deep in the Sahara. Western powers, concerned with oil revenues and creating instability in the region, contract with an elusive, international organization to track and kill the terrorists. Cawl, an assassin specializing in deaths that cause no questions, is trained in Barcelona and sent south over land and sea to Algeria, alone. His Gather intel, choose targets, eliminate targets. To Cawl, it’s a routine assignment. But his mission is anything but routine. The desert, its culture, and its people make sure of it. And when it’s over, Cawl will never be the same.
Born and raised in South Louisiana, Mark has traveled, lived and worked around the world. He graduated from the School of Journalism, University of Missouri, and from the law school of Loyola University in New Orleans. In order to support his fiction habit, he has worked as a Mississippi River deckhand, bar tender, grass cutter, journalist, teacher and attorney. He currently lives about an hour north of New Orleans. Like Streams In Sand is his first novel.