Marc Olden
Marc Olden (1933–2003) was the author of forty mystery and suspense novels. Born in Baltimore, he began writing while working in New York as a Broadway publicist. His first book,Angela Davis(1973), was a nonfiction study of the controversial Black Panther. In 1973 he also publishedNarc, under the name Robert Hawke, beginning a hard-boiled nine-book series about a federal narcotics agent.A year later,Black Samuraiintroduced Robert Sand, a martial arts expert who becomes the first non-Japanese...
