Mark Biskeborn

Born in Klamath Falls, Oregon.

I grew up in Stockton, California.

Went to college at UC Santa Cruz, French, German, English literature.

Masters in Comparative Literature.

Two years in Goethingen University, Germany.

Lived more and worked for 15 years, Lyon, France.

I've written 6 novels and working on another:

A SUFI'S GHOST >>

Carmen commits a capital crime. She disobeys her husband. Worse yet, she leaves her husband's house alone. Worse yet, she took one of his many Mercedes to meet a man. She's been in a disastrous marriage since the wedding day, almost five years ago. Stuck in Saudi Arabia, she is on the run to get out. Born in Persia, raised in Paris, she thirsts for freedom ever since her mother arranged the marriage to a Saudi prince. Bright, well-educated, elegant, she wants more than a cloistered life in the desert. Larry Larson left the CIA only a couple months ago, so disenchanted about how his service as a case officer ruined his private life. His wife left him. Now he returns to Saudi Arabia to hunt down al-Qaeda lieutenants for the reward money. Big money can help ease the pain and fix his messed up life, and help him to regain his losses. When his main source of information, Prince Nabir, is assassinated, he's desperate and needs a break. He meets Carmen, who takes him on a wild ride through the desert, following the ghost of a prominent Sufi.

CALIFORNIANS AND OTHER COWBOYS, A collection of 11 short stories >>

Sample summaries of some of the stories ]]

In Two Birds of Paradise, we learn that Todd's wife left him after he lost a leg and returned from Iraq. He meets someone at the Los Angeles Hilton who has a lot in common with him. She knows how to ease his worries and make the time fly.

In Stay Frosty, we are surprised to see that Kris Klug has returned to the readers who first met him in the novel, Mojave Winds, where he seemed to have won the battle. In Stay Frosty, we find that he has not won the war. His wife, Sheila, witnesses the kidnapping of her best friend and fellow dancer. As Klug quickly takes action to search and rescue Sheila's friend, he runs up against a group of bikers, who make a living by bartering women for drugs from Mexico to sell in California. This short story, Stay Frosty dovetails into the sequel novel, Mexican Trade.

In The Iraqi Woman, we discover the Bedouin, a young Iraqi woman locked up alone in a house. Her wealthy husband made an exception to local customs by allowing her to remain alive after the Bedouin kidnapped her. She became a tainted woman, touched by the Bedouin.

From his rooftop lookout, Lutter watches her bathe every afternoon. Francois Lutter is working his network in the war torn Iraq, trading in contraband, weapons, unloading cash from convoys, drugs.... With his binoculars, he watches for the convoys and admires the young woman bathing and the tattoos the Bedouin gave her. He just has to talk with her even though that may cost him his life.

MOJAVE WINDS, Second Edition >>

All Klug wants is to find a normal, peaceful life again, where he can leave the war behind.

But then the Army discharges Klug without honors, despite his collection of valorous citations. In need of a job, he gets a job in trucking from his Uncle Fred, his only remaining family.

CIA Agent Bob Farland informs Klug that his uncle is trafficking drugs on the side and that a gang of thugs may be his suppliers. But Klug's uncle isn't Farland's real target. He's after Klug, who learned secrets in Iraq the government doesn't want him to know.

When his uncle disappears into the desert, Klug hops on a bus to Vegas with 12 other passengers, trying to track him down. On the bus, he meets Sheila, who just might be the love of his life. But the course of true love rarely runs smooth, and the bus is hiijacked by a drug gang with CIA connections looking for money from a drug deal gone bad.

To save Sheila and the other passengers, Klug has to dig deep into his moral core, getting his hands dirty in the darkness. He isn't sure why powerful people are pursuing him, but he can only guess that they are afraid that he knows far too much.

SONORA WINDS: second novel in trilogy

Klug may be looking to settle down to a peaceful American life, but his troubles are not over. They have only begun. Klug only wins a battle or two, but the war continues as he realizes that the small-time gangsters have indirect connections to Gaucho, the boss of the Sonora Cartel.

How far will Klug go to find his kidnapped wife? When thugs kidnap his wife, Sheila, Klug, must fight an unholy alliance of drug dealers, bikers, and rogue CIA agents who use his wife to lure him to Juarez City where local police seldom investigate. Gaucho commands his managers to contract bikers fresh out of prison to kill Klug. With the help of a Mexican, investigative journalist, Lydia gains Klug's trust. They become partners as survivalists, fugitives, and potential whistle blowers.

A retired CIA agent, Dale, passed some top secrets articles to Lydia about the Fellowship's obscure schemes. Klug remembers that he has an encrypted flash-drive full of information, given to him in Iraq. Klug could never get it decrypted. Mouley Hussan, a computer engineer, had hacked into the CIA's data and gave one flash-drive for Klug and one for Dale in the hope to expose the truth to the public about the Fellowship's hidden plans.

MOROCCO WINDS: the third novel in this trilogy

Lydia and Klug take a flight to Cuba with one of Klug's old combat buddies, Winston Smith. Klug gave Smith plenty of conclusive evidence to enable him to gain the millions of reward money. Smith strangely disappears when he meets with CIA agents in Miami. Lydia and Klug hide in Havana, Cuba, even though the CIA considered them already assassinated in Lima, Peru.

In order to survive, Lydia and Klug have to keep moving. They take a cruise ship from Havana to Philipsburg, St. Maarten. From there they are able to continue to Lisbon. Former CIA agents, now mercenaries, June and McGill have found them. Lydia and Klug kill the mercenaries on the ship during a fight. The local police confirm that June and McGill killed each other in a domestic homicide. Lydia and Klug search through the two mercenaries' notebooks and cell phones and learn where to search for Mouley Hussan and where Klug's wife might be. After so much time, Klug and Lydia might have found his kidnapped wife, Sheila.