Black Sun Rising
by Otho Eskin
GENRE: Thriller
PUBLICATION DATE: 06/10/2025
DESCRIPTION:
When Washington, DC, homicide detective Marko Zorn’s partner is murdered, his search for justice leads him deep into Black Sun, a violent neo-Nazi movement built from the ruins of WWII’s most sinister forces. Their goal: unleash a catastrophic attack that will plunge the nation into chaos.
To stop them, Marko must outwit a woman known as the Bride of the Apocalypse, navigate the treacherous ambitions of two of the world’s richest—and most ruthless—men, and confront a conspiracy stretching from Washington’s corridors of power to the shadows of the city’s underworld.
Can Marko save the country from annihilation?
A pulse-pounding thriller in the tradition of Baldacci, Clancy, and Patterson, Black Sun Rising delivers relentless suspense, razor-sharp political intrigue, and a chillingly timely story of unchecked hatred—and the one man willing to risk everything to stop it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Before he turned to writing fiction, Otho Eskin served in the U.S. Army and in the United States Foreign Service in Washington and in Syria, Yugoslavia, Iceland and Berlin as a lawyer and diplomat. He was Vice-Chairman of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, participated in the negotiations on the International Space Station, was principal U.S. negotiator of several international agreements on seabed mining and was the U.S. representative to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. He speaks French, German, and Serbo-Croatian. He was a frequent speaker at conferences and has testified before the U.S. Congress and commissions.
He has also written plays including: "Act of God," "Murder as a Fine Art," "Duet," "Julie," "Final Analysis," "Season in Hell," among others, which have been professionally produced in Washington, New York and in Europe.
Otho is married to writer Therese Keane and lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
REVIEWS:
“A fast-moving thriller by a master of intelligence secrets. You will not be able to put it down unfinished.” — Mike Bond, author of "Crude: Ukraine, Oil, and Nuclear War"
“Another Otho Eskin thriller that delivers double the trouble, twice the action, and quadruple the enjoyment.” — Steve Berry, New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author
“A scorching tale that whisks away on a breathless non-stop thrill ride … Brilliant, bracing and blistering.” — Jon Land, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author
“Detective Marko Zorn is at his eccentric best … exactly the kind of anti-hero readers can’t help but cheer for.” —Amy Pease, author of "Northwoods"