Background
Maurice Medland was born on September 29, 1936 in Centerville, Iowa, United States. Son of William C. and Avis N. (Blue) Medland.
("One of the best adventure writers today. A master storyt...)
"One of the best adventure writers today. A master storyteller." - Clive Cussler Two men separated by a strict code of honor locked in a lethal game of international terror . . . Jorge Cordoba has schemed and murdered his way to the top of a Colombian drug cartel intent on bankrupting the industrialized nations of the world. But when the freighter delivering the goods that will secure the cartel's - and Cordoba's - future goes missing, he's thrown into a life or death struggle to recover it. Enter Navy Lieutenant Daniel Blake, a former merchant marine officer who's just been ordered to lead a boarding party of seven men and one woman onto an abandoned freighter. In the hull of the freighter are thirty tons of cocaine, $350 million in cash - and half a dozen corpses with their tongues cut out. Separated from his own ship with a typhoon rapidly approaching, Blake and his team are plunged into a battle of terror against not one, but two treacherous enemies - Cordoba's strike force racing to the scene and a savage murderer who is still aboard. At the heart of this electrifying novel are two very different men, separated by their morality and strict code of honor, bound together in a deadly game of power and survival that each must fight to the very end.
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("One of the best adventure writers today. A master storyt...)
"One of the best adventure writers today. A master storyteller." - Clive Cussler The secrecy of a mysterious aerospace laboratory in Hong Kong . . . A daring break from a heavily guarded Chinese prison camp . . . A fierce drama played out on the storm-tossed Pacific Ocean - and in the depths below - where the fate of the world is in the hands of a brave young American couple . . . When Elizabeth Grayson, the half-Chinese daughter of a U.S. senator, discovers she has unwittingly contributed to a terrible new weapons system while doing medical research in China, she's thrown into a notorious forced labor camp to keep her quiet. Enter Matt Connor, a disgraced ex-submarine officer operating a tramp ocean-salvage ship out of Taiwan, who is hired by her wealthy father to get her out. At the heart of this electrifying novel are a strong-willed pacifist and her reluctant rescuer, two people from vastly different worlds who become bound together in a desperate game of survival, pitted against deadly forces that must be stopped at any cost - even their own lives.
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Maurice Medland was born on September 29, 1936 in Centerville, Iowa, United States. Son of William C. and Avis N. (Blue) Medland.
Bachelor of Science, Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri, 1961.
Master of Business Administration, with Honors, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, 1977.
Management Systems Analyst, Rockwell International Corporation, Downey, California, 1961-1970.
Director, Fluor Corporation, Irvine, California 1970-1985.
Vice president, PacifiCare Health Systems, Cypress, California 1985-1987.
Novelist, 1987-present.
Creative Writing Instructor, University of California, Irvine, California 1998—1999.
Advisor, California State University Fullerton Writers Program, 1998—2000.
Non-commissioned officer, United States Navy, 1954-1957, United States Naval Reserve, 1957-1962.
("One of the best adventure writers today. A master storyt...)
("One of the best adventure writers today. A master storyt...)
(“Maurice Medland has to be one of the best of the best ad...)
Member, The Authors Guild
Member, International Thriller Writers.
Married Karen A. McFarland, August 7, 1965. Children: Melissa A., Steven W.