PUBLISHED FICTION BY MARK BISKEBORN

Novels and Short Stories

NOVEL: Mojave Winds ISBN 978-0-9801383-0-6   Sheila works at the grand venues in Las Vegas as a classical dancer. A Persian by birth, she sits next to Kris Klug on the bus from LA to Vegas. She grew up in Paris where her mother still lives. While young, she moved to Texas to join her brother and attend college. Meeting someone like Kris Klug changes her life. She never dreamed of such a man...but then, furthest from her mind was a romance in the desert while struggling just to survive while a gang of thugs hunt them down. Mojave Winds is a romance novel, a thriller, a religious story... Read it...and be pleasantly surprised. NOVEL: Mojave Winds

Next Novel, A Sequel: Follow the Sufi's Ghost

Carmen commits a capital crime; she disobeyed her husband. Worse yet, she left her husband's house alone. Worse yet, she took one of his many Mercedes. 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 two 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...help him to regain his loses. 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... NOVEL -- slated for Publication by Winter 2008

SHORT STORY: The Iraqi Woman

They call her 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. 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...drug traffick... With his binoculars, he watches for the convoys and admires the young woman bathing...the tattoos the Bedouin gave her... He just has to talk with her even though that may cost him his life. SHORT STORY: Available NOW on Amazon.com/shorts

SHORT STORY: The Iraqi Deserter

Lieutenant Ken Wilson, US Marine Recon unit, thought that training Iraqis to be soldiers would be an easy job, a way to relax a little after many highly stressful combat missions. He quickly learns that the Iraqis he trains have their own ideas about democracy and justice. SHORT STORY: Available NOW on Amazon.com/shorts

SHORT STORY: At the Los Angeles Hilton

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. SHORT STORY: Available soon on Amazon.com/shorts

SHORT STORY: The Rancheros

A vivacious woman in her prime, Kate married a much older man, Kali, who, with his brothers, happens to own one of the largest ranches in Kleberg County, Texas. After the first few months of a feverish marriage, Kate's husband neglects her in favor of a variety of lady friends at his condo in Houston. Rumor circulates around the Kingsville beauty salon that maybe Marta's older husband did not die by accident. When Kate's maid has to move away, she posts an employment offer for a maid at the beauty salon and interviews only one person for the job: Marta. She probably has all the skills Kate needs to take care of business. SHORT STORY: Available soon on Amazon.com/shorts