Mark FurnessMark Furness is an award-nominated writer of thrillers, mysteries and black comedy crime. A former journalist and foreign correspondent who has worked in the USA, UK, Australia and East Asia, he draws on these experiences to inform his crime stories hich often feature journalists. He claims his good characters are based on real people - and the black hats are purely fictional. He crashed a hang-glider into high voltage wires when he was twenty-one years of age, sustaining electrical burns which left him hospitalized and in rehabilitation for over a year. While bearing life-long physical scars, he claims his brain fully recovered. This is disputed by some friends and family members. Mark is an Australian who lives in Sydney and is married with two young adult children. The British Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger competition long-listed his international conspiracy thriller, with the working title FBEyes, in which journalists uncover corruption at the high-tech frontier of the global arms industry. FBEyes is a work-in-progress. It is the follow-on novel to Under Eden. Mark's flash fiction has been published by Apocrypha & Abstractions in the US, and he has been a finalist in Australia's Cowley Literary Award. Mark's work is represented by literary agent Clive Newman, principal of the Newman Agency. Learn more at: www.markfurnesswriter.com Read More Read Less