Mark David Abbott is the author of ten thrillers and one travelogue but he wasn’t always a writer.

Born in Cyprus to an Army father, and after a short stint in Germany and the United Kingdom, he then moved to New Zealand where he grew up. At the age of eighteen he took off to explore the world and has since lived in England, Hong Kong (twice) and India (twice) as well as travelling extensively

Mark has worked variously as a barman, a factory hand, supermarket shelf stocker, and a real estate salesman, but since giving up his Real Estate career in Hong Kong, Mark has devoted his time to writing and traveling.

Due to Covid travel restrictions, Mark is based in India again, where coincidentally two generations ago, his grandfather, while stationed there as a soldier under British rule, met and married his grandmother, a nurse of mixed Indian and Dutch descent.

Mark is a keen runner and in between runs is slowly building an impressive collection of Gin.