Janac's Games

What will you do...?The Sniper is a sensational short story (12,000 words or about 36 pages) featuring the central character from Mark Chisnell's 'Janac's Games' thrillers; The Defector and The Wrecking Crew.An empty clearing in the Vietnamese jungle in 1969. An explosive, complex and compromised war rages to the north and south, to the east and the west. Two men come to the clearing with a simple task in mind – to kill a man. A man who wants to visit his girl.A simple task made dangerous and ultimately deadly by a startling intervention. Soon, US Marine Corps sniper, Paul Robert Janac has to look deep inside to survive a pulse-pounding jungle manhunt that will leave him with a life-or-death choice. So what will he do, when...This is the first of several stories that will follow Janac's progress from the Vietnam War to drug trade dominance, to the place where we meet him in The Defector – these stories are the origins of Janac's Games.If you're one of the hundreds of thousands of people that have enjoyed The Defector and The Wrecking Crew, then you won't want to miss the moment when it all begins to unravel for a good and decent soldier.And if you haven't yet read the 'Janac's Games' books, this is a great place to start...Reviews for The DefectorAn excellent drug-smuggling thriller.The BooksellerThis is a remarkable thriller - chillingly violent, full of tension and with a very original ending.Publishing NewsReviews for The Wrecking CrewA real ripping yarn... begging to be made into an all-action film.Qantas in-flight magazine. Mark Chisnell has written 16 books, they've been translated into five languages and topped sales and download charts in the USA, UK, Germany, Italy and Spain.Mark writes suspense and mystery thrillers, technical books on the art and science of racing sailboats, along with non-fiction books and journalism on travel, sport and technology for some of the world's leading magazines and newspapers, including Esquire and the Guardian.Mark began his writing with travel stories, while hitch-hiking around the world. He got a job sweeping up and making tea with the British America's Cup team in Australia in 1987 to earn the money to get home. He worked his way onto the boat as navigator and has sailed and worked with six more America's Cup teams since then. He's also won three World Championships in sailing, and currently runs the Technical Innovation Group at Land Rover BAR, Sir Ben Ainslie's British America's Cup team.Mark now lives by a river in the UK with his wife, two young sons and a dog – whenever he gets a couple of minutes peace he can usually be found reading a Jack Reacher novel, or the latest from Michael Lewis or Malcolm Gladwell.

What will you do, when it's you or them?This is the dilemma at the heart of The Defector - can Martin Cormac turn his back on his ruthless past as a dealer, a major city player, and do the right thing? Not when he's looking for answers in a succession of sleazy dives...One night, Cormac gets caught trying to chat up the bar owner's girlfriend and soon needs rescuing. Unfortunately, his white knight is anything but - Janac's a big-time drug baron with a psychotic urge to test people to the limit, and if possible... over it.And soon Cormac is running from more than his past, he's running from the most dangerous game he will ever play. When he runs into the arms of his ex-girlfriend - and his only real love - even the wide open spaces of the ocean may not be a big enough place to hide.The Defector is a suspense thriller with a psychological twist, and a finale that ranks with the all-time classic sea adventures - read the opening chapters in the sample.Reviews for The Defector.'An excellent drug-smuggling thriller.'The Bookseller.'This is a remarkable thriller – chillingly violent, full of tension and with a very original ending.'Publishing News.'New British fiction writer Mark Chisnell will have to go a long way to top his debut.'Bristol Observer.'A fabulous and brilliantly written story.' Peterborough Evening Telegraph.'Compelling, hard to put down but not for the squeamish or faint-hearted.'CityMix Auckland.'I really enjoyed this book, it's a tense action thriller with a great psychological edge.'Booked Up.'Well plotted and as smoothly written as anything else I've read lately.'Kindle Obsessed.'If you're a fan of fast-paced psychological thrillers, you'll love The Defector.'JulieW8.com.'I finished the book over an hour ago and my stomach is still in a small knot. Decompression could take a while.'Let's Book It.'It was a pleasure to read a thriller in which some of the conflict was physical, some romantic, and some took place on the battlefield of competing philosophies.'Reading Review. Mark Chisnell has written 16 books, they've been translated into five languages and topped sales and download charts in the USA, UK, Germany, Italy and Spain.Mark writes suspense and mystery thrillers, technical books on the art and science of racing sailboats, along with non-fiction books and journalism on travel, sport and technology for some of the world's leading magazines and newspapers, including Esquire and the Guardian.Mark began his writing with travel stories, while hitch-hiking around the world. He got a job sweeping up and making tea with the British America's Cup team in Australia in 1987 to earn the money to get home. He worked his way onto the boat as navigator and has sailed and worked with six more America's Cup teams since then. He's also won three World Championships in sailing, and currently runs the Technical Innovation Group at Land Rover BAR, Sir Ben Ainslie's British America's Cup team.Mark now lives by a river in the UK with his wife, two young sons and a dog – whenever he gets a couple of minutes peace he can usually be found reading a Jack Reacher novel, or the latest from Michael Lewis or Malcolm Gladwell.

Janac's back, and there will be games - so what will you do when it's them... or the woman you love?Drug baron Janac has unleashed a reign of terror in the South China Sea to fund his battle for control of the Australian narcotics trade. When he attacks an old cargo ship on an evil night off the Indonesian coast, it seems he has also found the perfect victims to exploit with his psychotic games.Phil Hamnet and his wife Anna are sharing a last voyage before the arrival of their twins. Hamnet escapes Janac's attack, but Anna is taken and held hostage to ensure first his silence, and then his cooperation. But when Janac's rogue ex-Special Forces crew attack more ships and men start dying, Hamnet has to decide if he can continue to sacrifice the lives of unknown sailors to save the woman he loves.It's an awful decision for anyone to have to make, but for a man who's already had the same dilemma - tormented in a lifeboat, adrift in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean - it's a living nightmare.Janac's first appearance was in Mark Chisnell's suspense thriller The Defector.Reviews for The Wrecking Crew'A real ripping yarn... begging to be made into an all-action film.'Qantas in-flight magazine.'It's a great escapist yarn with Janac a really nasty villain who gives Hamnet untold grief. I enjoyed this one.'Hawkes Bay Today.'I found it impossible to put down.'Boating New Zealand.'Perfect for summer reading.'CityMix Auckland. Mark Chisnell has written 16 books, they've been translated into five languages and topped sales and download charts in the USA, UK, Germany, Italy and Spain.Mark writes suspense and mystery thrillers, technical books on the art and science of racing sailboats, along with non-fiction books and journalism on travel, sport and technology for some of the world's leading magazines and newspapers, including Esquire and the Guardian.Mark began his writing with travel stories, while hitch-hiking around the world. He got a job sweeping up and making tea with the British America's Cup team in Australia in 1987 to earn the money to get home. He worked his way onto the boat as navigator and has sailed and worked with six more America's Cup teams since then. He's also won three World Championships in sailing, and currently runs the Technical Innovation Group at Land Rover BAR, Sir Ben Ainslie's British America's Cup team.Mark now lives by a river in the UK with his wife, two young sons and a dog – whenever he gets a couple of minutes peace he can usually be found reading a Jack Reacher novel, or the latest from Michael Lewis or Malcolm Gladwell.