Unfinished Business is a military oriented thriller that takes the reader on a wild ride from Russia to Iraq to the sunny Greek Islands and on to Rome, with multiple stops along the way. Retired Special Forces LTC Cap Pennington is recalled for active duty in Iraq where he tracks a ruthless terrorist named Abdul al-Hermani. After eventually capturing the terrorist, the man then escapes and Pennington is seriously wounded during an ambush on their convoy. Distraught, Cap is returned to the States to recover from his wounds. Along with his wife and brother, Pennington elects to take a vacation in the form of a Mediterranean cruise later that year. But Abdul al-Hermani has different plans for the cruise ship. Using stolen Sarin nerve gas, al-Hermani plans mass murder aboard the ship. Now fate intervenes and it falls upon Pennington and a Russian agent who is tracking the Sarin to both save the ship and deal with the man who has haunted Pennington for so long.

Author Biography

Mark Higginson is a former safety director of a large Midwest energy company. Experiences as an Army artillery officer along the Korean DMZ in 1969 inspired his first novel, North of the River. Subsequent travels helped create Pali, his second work of fiction. Unfinished Business is a sequel to that work. Mark is a member of the VFW and he and his wife Susan divide their time between Columbus Ohio and Tellico Lake, Tennessee.