Mark Abernethy Mark Abernethy i(A107940 works by)
Also writes as: Mark Aitken
Born: Established: 1964 ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Mark Abernethy has worked as a speechwriter, journalist, ghost writer and novelist. He is a former editor at Australian Penthouse magazine and has also written for the Bulletin and the Australian Financial Review.

Source: Allen and Unwin website, http://www.allenandunwin.com/
Sighted: 18/07/2007

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y separately published work icon The Contractor Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2017 11581407 2017 single work biography

'I fix things. I can build you a house or remodel your bathroom. I can also make bad situations - and bad people - disappear.'

'Meet Mike. Runs a building site, drives a ute, likes a beer, loves his nail-gun.

'But Mike is hiding in plain sight. When the Pentagon call him in as 'Big Unit', he's another kind of contractor - one as handy with a Colt M4 as he is with a Skilsaw, a man as accustomed to danger, death, and pain as he is to a hammer and nails.

'In six action-packed true stories we follow a man who left foreign intelligence for a life 'on the tools', only to discover there's too many dangerous scenarios and terrible people still out there. The good guys need a James Bond in Blundstones. They need The Contractor.

'Tradie. Spy. Big Unit.

'Follow Big Unit as he goes undercover to save a family trapped by an ISIS-run drug cartel in the seedy back streets of Northern Pakistan to terrorist-besieged Paris to a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with Australia's most wanted murderer.' (Publication Summary)

2018 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing Best True Crime
y separately published work icon The Golden Serpent Crows Nest : Arena , 2007 Z1409347 2007 single work novel thriller

'Alan McQueen, aka Mac, was once a star of the global intelligence community, renowned for being the Aussie spook who shot and killed Abu Sabaya, the world's most dangerous terrorist.

'But that was 2002.

'Now, during a routine assignment in Indonesia, McQueen discovers that Sabaya is not in fact dead. Instead he's teamed up with rogue CIA veteran Peter Garrison and is armed with a cache of stolen VX nerve agent he's threatening to deploy in a dramatic and deadly manner.

'Battling to stay one step ahead of Sabaya's hit-men, CIA double-agents and deep corruption within Australian intelligence, Mac must find the stolen VX before it's too late. His mission will take him on a chase through South-East Asia and test all of his considerable courage and ingenuity.' (Publisher's blurb)

2008 nominated Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing Best First Novel
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