Black Sun Rising by Otho Eskin
Published: June 10, 2025 by Meridian Editions
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 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.
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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 (then the capital of
the German Democratic Republic) 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.
Otho’s career in the Foreign Service prepared
him for thriller writing later in life as he witnessed political intrigue at
every strata of society. While stationed in East Berlin during the cold war,
the East German intelligence service (Stasi) operating on behalf of their
Soviet masters published a book entitled Who’s who in CIA, translated into
several languages and with wide distribution. This propaganda effort listed
Otho and was intended to claim that he was a U.S. spy. (He was not.) This was
part of the East German and ultimately Soviet disinformation campaign to make
the work of U.S. Foreign Service officers serving abroad more difficult.
Otho Eskin has also written many plays including: Act of
God, Murder as a Fine Art, Duet, Julie,
Final Analysis, and Season in Hell, among others,
which have been professionally produced internationally. Duet received
its UK premiere at Theatre at the Tabbard in April of 2024.
Otho is married to writer Therese Keane and
lives in Bethesda, Maryland, after spending the majority of his life in
Washington, DC.
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