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Under Eden: The New Gar Hart Thriller
A billionaire's dark family secret. A deadly conspiracy. A reporter's world-shaking scoop. This journalist with a gun is about to need it...
Readers say: 'Pulse-pounding action. Razor-sharp dialogue. Breathtaking suspense. Humor. Modern. Scary. I'm hooked! Gar Hart is my new favorite hero'
When a billionaire's son goes to prison for stealing money before mutilating his own lips, Hart doesn't buy the family's PR line about mental illness. But he never expected witnesses to turn up dead, and for his own kids to end up in the crosshairs...
With the help of his inexpereinced but whip-smart prot�g�, Hart must crack open a sinister underworld of the ultra rich while protecting the ones he loves. Racing the globe from Sydney to London to Shanghai to stay ahead of his pursuers, he realizes that outing the truth will take both a pen and a gun.
This edition of Under Eden is a three-part book of interlocking thrillers filled with gritty heroes, ingenious villains, dark humor, sizzling dialogue, subversive themes, and spine-tingling plot twists.
The author Mark Furness was a foreign correspondent who lived and worked in the USA, the UK, Australia, and East Asia. He claims the good characters are based on real people - and the black hats are purely fictional. Truly.
Readers say: 'Pulse-pounding action. Razor-sharp dialogue. Breathtaking suspense. Humor. Modern. Scary. I'm hooked! Gar Hart is my new favorite hero'
When a billionaire's son goes to prison for stealing money before mutilating his own lips, Hart doesn't buy the family's PR line about mental illness. But he never expected witnesses to turn up dead, and for his own kids to end up in the crosshairs...
With the help of his inexpereinced but whip-smart prot�g�, Hart must crack open a sinister underworld of the ultra rich while protecting the ones he loves. Racing the globe from Sydney to London to Shanghai to stay ahead of his pursuers, he realizes that outing the truth will take both a pen and a gun.
This edition of Under Eden is a three-part book of interlocking thrillers filled with gritty heroes, ingenious villains, dark humor, sizzling dialogue, subversive themes, and spine-tingling plot twists.
The author Mark Furness was a foreign correspondent who lived and worked in the USA, the UK, Australia, and East Asia. He claims the good characters are based on real people - and the black hats are purely fictional. Truly.
404 pages, Paperback
Published July 1, 2022
About the author
Mark Furness
18 books12 followersHi. I'm a bestselling author of thrillers, mysteries, and dark comedy crime. I live in Sydney, Australia.
Before writing fiction, I worked as a foreign correspondent in the US, the UK, Australia, and East Asia. I draw on these experiences to inform my crime stories which often feature journalists.
My major novel featuring journalists is the international conspiracy thriller, Under Eden. While fiction, this three-part series has many parallels with the real and deadly world in which investigative journalists operate.
Unlike Gar, I did not carry a gun on the job. But there were occasions when that type of defence would have been handy. I might have gone in harder on my subject matter, as Gar does. Ha.
In creating my story, I considered the real perils faced by contemporary investigative journalists.
In Putin's Russia, the Communist Party's China, and the Kim family's North Korea, there is little dissent from the local media. Dictators who control the dark forces of the State are rarely sleepless about internal criticism.
External criticism is another matter. The Saudi Arabian regime, unhappy about its King and Prince being accused of corruption by dissident journalist and The Washington Post columnist, Jamal Khashoggi, lured him to the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, Turkey, where he was literally butchered a couple of years ago.
The Saudi's make Donald Trump's signature cry of 'Fake News' look like a soft approach to dealing with media critics.
But for plenty of powerful people, murder or 'disappearance' remain the ultimate methods to shut up journalists.
Of course, not all journalists are saints.
I've met a few who have taken a rich man's coin to publish good things about their subjects and ignore the dark. And there are others in the mould of the late American publisher Arthur Kasherman who portrayed himself as a "vice crusader" publishing fearless exposés about corruption and gangster rule. Others, however, called him a blackmailer who threatened to write defamatory articles about them if they didn't pay him off. Kasherman owned his own press, so he had a free hand to say whatever he wanted. Until he was shot dead while dining out.
If you read my stories, you'll find they're all veined with gritty, dark humour.
I can't be sure of the source of this. But as a 21-year-old, I flew a hang-glider into high voltage wires, sustaining electrical burns which left me hospitalized and in rehabilitation for over a year. My body still bears a few physical scars, but I believe my brain fully recovered. This belief is disputed by some of my friends and family members.
Most recently, I published, Justice Machine, Book #1 of a dark comedy crime thriller series titled Firefly Electrics. The books feature suburban electricians, Lennie and Joe, and a cockatoo named Rawcus, who fight on behalf of society's underdogs against corrupt elites of the Establishment.
The British Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger competition long-listed my international conspiracy thriller, with the working title FBEyes. It is a follow-on to Under Eden in which journalists uncover corruption at the high-tech frontier of the global arms industry. FBEyes is also slated for publication in late 2020.
You can learn more at: markfurnesswriter.com
All the best, Mark
Before writing fiction, I worked as a foreign correspondent in the US, the UK, Australia, and East Asia. I draw on these experiences to inform my crime stories which often feature journalists.
My major novel featuring journalists is the international conspiracy thriller, Under Eden. While fiction, this three-part series has many parallels with the real and deadly world in which investigative journalists operate.
Unlike Gar, I did not carry a gun on the job. But there were occasions when that type of defence would have been handy. I might have gone in harder on my subject matter, as Gar does. Ha.
In creating my story, I considered the real perils faced by contemporary investigative journalists.
In Putin's Russia, the Communist Party's China, and the Kim family's North Korea, there is little dissent from the local media. Dictators who control the dark forces of the State are rarely sleepless about internal criticism.
External criticism is another matter. The Saudi Arabian regime, unhappy about its King and Prince being accused of corruption by dissident journalist and The Washington Post columnist, Jamal Khashoggi, lured him to the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, Turkey, where he was literally butchered a couple of years ago.
The Saudi's make Donald Trump's signature cry of 'Fake News' look like a soft approach to dealing with media critics.
But for plenty of powerful people, murder or 'disappearance' remain the ultimate methods to shut up journalists.
Of course, not all journalists are saints.
I've met a few who have taken a rich man's coin to publish good things about their subjects and ignore the dark. And there are others in the mould of the late American publisher Arthur Kasherman who portrayed himself as a "vice crusader" publishing fearless exposés about corruption and gangster rule. Others, however, called him a blackmailer who threatened to write defamatory articles about them if they didn't pay him off. Kasherman owned his own press, so he had a free hand to say whatever he wanted. Until he was shot dead while dining out.
If you read my stories, you'll find they're all veined with gritty, dark humour.
I can't be sure of the source of this. But as a 21-year-old, I flew a hang-glider into high voltage wires, sustaining electrical burns which left me hospitalized and in rehabilitation for over a year. My body still bears a few physical scars, but I believe my brain fully recovered. This belief is disputed by some of my friends and family members.
Most recently, I published, Justice Machine, Book #1 of a dark comedy crime thriller series titled Firefly Electrics. The books feature suburban electricians, Lennie and Joe, and a cockatoo named Rawcus, who fight on behalf of society's underdogs against corrupt elites of the Establishment.
The British Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger competition long-listed my international conspiracy thriller, with the working title FBEyes. It is a follow-on to Under Eden in which journalists uncover corruption at the high-tech frontier of the global arms industry. FBEyes is also slated for publication in late 2020.
You can learn more at: markfurnesswriter.com
All the best, Mark
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