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A speeding lobster boat plowing through a flotilla of helpless sea kayakers sparked Mark’s interest in the rough and tumble world of Maine lobstermen and became the driving concept for his second novel, Lobster Wars.


Lobster Wars is a tight, fast-paced social satire focusing on what happens when reality TV comes to a small fishing village in Maine. The locals think they're going to get famous and rich. But it's never that easy. Especially when Connor Nichols, a telegenic outsider, a guy from away, gets a lobster fishing license, buys a boat and horns in on their territory and their shot at fame and fortune. The TV show airs to great ratings only increasing the pressure, the craziness. Not to mention what happens when a few unsavory characters see the show and decide to get in on the action. With filming about to begin, everything now hinges on season two. But that’s okay, it’s reality TV, what could go wrong? 


Lobster Wars is a multi-layered character driven novel that explores the inherent conflict resulting from an outsider attempting to enter the closed fraternity of lobstermen. The TV show’s production and on-air success serve as a fulcrum to leverage the discord among the key characters as they confuse dominance on the water with success on the TV screen. 

Cutthroat


Mark’s first novel, Cutthroat, grew out of a sense of impending doom when he was convinced that a Montana fishing guide was going to kill him. 


Travis French has his hands full. Poor guy. He’s just trying to make a little money, keep his fly-fishing clients happy, and prevent his cute lil’ girl friend from walking out. Oh, and by the way, get the state bureaucrats off his ass. After all, he didn’t mean to kill that client. It was an accident. Really. 


Trouble is, accidents happen around Travis. And the fuse is lit on the next one...


One of Travis’s wealthy clients, Wall Street operator and maniac fly-fisherman, Richard Weston, weathered the 2008 financial meltdown in fine style. And now the investment banking big shot is ready to make his move. When two MIT scientists mysteriously perish in a fire, Weston gets the only two authentic copies of their research... research that proves definitively that cell phones cause brain cancer. And Weston knows exactly what to do with the inside information—crash the market price, short sell the stocks and make billions.

But as brilliantly as he calculates finance, Weston foolishly miscalculates his marriage.


Weston’s wife, Anna, a savvy Siberian beauty, knows the bastard is up to something illegal, so she’s getting out, quick. But she has to protect herself, so she grabs the two copies of cell phone study and jets to Montana— where her one-time playmate, Travis, will protect her. Won’t he? 


Well, the question is, who will cut whose throat and how? And for how much money?


The story is a darkly comic, action-adventure in which all the characters are damaged—even the good guys. Reminiscent of early Elmore Leonard, Cutthroat is a warped mix of fly-fishing, crop dusting, financial shenanigans and, of course, sex and mayhem. 

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