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Marc Olden was born in 1933, in Baltimore. His father was graphic designer Georg Olden, his mother was actress and model, Courtenaye Olden.
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A thriller from the author of "Dai-Sho", "Oni" and "Te". When Laughing Boy finds the perfect woman, he showers her with gifts, then begins her education as a "Kinsaeng", a creature of recreation. She becomes a player in an erotic and deadly relationship which ends brutally only when she submits.
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Two ancient warriors meet on a modern battleground - & fight for total power.
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Meet the Gaijin, Japanese for outsider. He's the enigmatic Rupert de Jongh. An English aristocrat so fanatically obsessed by Japan that he betrays his country and becomes one of Japan's top intelligence agents during World War II. Now as the Gaijin he's become the most powerful figure in Japanese organized crime, controlling that country's largest yakuza mob. He wields power with absolute energy, maintaining his position through force and terror. He controls a sordid network of drug dealing, sex trafficking, prostitution and murder. He possesses discipline, intuition and in all things acts with unwavering self assurance. He acknowledges no will but his own and is as brutal as his needs require. He makes his first trip outside of Japan in years, a secret visit to Hawaii for talks with new American allies. But on a Honolulu beach he encounters an old enemy. She's Alexis Bendor, widowed and now running a rare books store. Near the end of World War II, when she was America's best cryptologist, Alexis was sent to Europe. Her mission: crack the Gaijin's code, then kill him. Instead the Gaijin captured her. She was brutally tortured but managed to escape. On the beach the two lock eyes. Few westerners know that de Jongh still lives. He's a wanted war criminal. This old woman can destroy him. He has no choice but to kill her. But to do so he must confront Alexis' son Simon, ex-CIA assassin and professional thief - a brilliant martial artist who only feels alive when he's taking risks.
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Marc Olden was born in 1933, in Baltimore. His father was graphic designer Georg Olden, his mother was actress and model, Courtenaye Olden.
Marc Olden started his writing career with two works of non-fiction - a biography of Angela Davis and a study of Cocaine in 1970s New York - before turning to the genres of thriller and suspense. Under the pen name Robert Hawkes, Olden began writing the Narc series, which follows a policeman on a counterdrug task force. During those early years, Olden also produced "Black Samurai".
The book follows the exploits of Robert Sand, a martial arts expert and the only non-Japanese trained by a Japanese samurai master. It became a successful novel series and was later made into a film, starring actor/karate-stylist Jim Kelly. Many of Olden’s eastern influenced books, such as "Girei", "Dai-Sho", "Gaijin", "Oni", "Te", "Kisaeng" and "Krait" reflect his lifelong study of the martial arts. Several of his books were optioned for film rights.
Marc Olden is perhaps best remembered for his haunting mystery Poe Must Die in which 19th-century American author Edgar Allan Poe appears as a protagonist. He was a prolific author of forty books, two non-fiction and thirty-eight fiction. He was recognized from the beginning of his career as a masterful crime writer and was nominated for the coveted Edgar Award for "They've Killed Anna", from his popular "Harker File" series about an investigative reporter.
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Marc Olden held advanced degree black belts in Aikido and Karate.
