Black Sun Rising

1st Place PenCraft Award WinnerLiterary Titan Gold Book Award Winner2025 IAN Book of the Year Awards FinalistBestThrillers.com Book Awards FinalistWhen 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.Black Sun Rising is the fourth book in Otho Eskin's Marko Zorn series, which includes The Reflecting Pool, Head Shot, and Firetrap. Each novel can be read as a stand-alone or as a part of the series.PRAISE FOR BLACK SUN RISING“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 lost World War II weapon of mass destruction…. A devastating explosion in Manhattan that conjures fears of another 9/11 …A charismatic police detective stalking his partner’s killer … Otho Eskin’s Black Sun Rising delivers the propulsive elements of a classic thriller in an all-too-frightening story about today.” —David Morrell, international bestselling author of First Blood, creator of Rambo“Taut, tense, and excruciatingly timely! Only the savviest of insiders—like Otho Eskin—could have concocted this gripping cautionary tale.” —Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today bestselling author“A scorching tale [and] breathless non-stop thrill ride. . . . Forget about the old cliché ‘ripped from the headlines.’ . . . Here is a brilliant, bracing and blistering book that may predict them instead.” —Jon Land, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Read more