The Marah Chase Adventures

World War Zero and The End of Eden

Or try out the short story Killing Well is the Best Revenge.

A love letter to Indiana Jones, Steven Spielberg, Ray Harryhausen, comic books, and Mission Impossible.

World War Zero:

A rogue archaeologist. A British spy.

FIND THE TOMB. SAVE THE WORLD.
An ancient weapon. A load of Nazis. An epic race against time.

Once a rising star in the field of archaeology, Marah Chase is now a black-market treasure hunter, her services available to the highest bidder. But when she's caught "rescuing" relics in Syria before they're destroyed by war, an MI6 agent named Joanna Mason approaches her with an offer she can't refuse: help save the world or rot in prison. All Chase has to do is find Alexander the Great's lost tomb, recover an ancient weapon of mass destruction he may have used to build his empire, and destroy it before the bad guys can get it. Among those adversaries are a powerful church that believes Earth was visited by ancient aliens, a group of relentless Nazi mercenaries, and a rival relic hunter.

Chase can't resist a challenge―or the British spy recruiting her. There's just one problem. If Chase has any hope of unearthing Alexander's tomb before the forces hot on her heels do, she'll need the help of the one person she's been afraid to see since her fall from grace: Zoe Forrester, an heiress to a secret journal containing the key to the search, and Chase's ex-girlfriend.

A contemporary homage to the best adventure stories of literature, television, and film, World War Zero is an action-packed, globe-trotting quest, perfect for anyone who's ever thought Indy really ought to be Jewish, female, and gay.

Perfect for fans of Andy McDermott, Scott Mariani, James Rollins, or Janet Evanovich.

The End of Eden:

A rogue archaeologist. A Nazi plot. The Garden of Eden.
FIND THE GARDEN. SAVE THE WORLD. 

Marah Chase has everything she wanted. Her academic career is back on track, she’s moved into a Manhattan apartment, and a dream job is waiting at the American Museum of Natural History. So why can’t she seem to stop slipping into her old ways, traveling the world in search of lost relics and buried treasure? Back out in the field, Chase finds the lost Ark of the Covenant, a discovery that could trigger a holy war, as religions and nations argue over ownership of the sacred item. The Ark also brings Chase into conflict with another legendary relic runner, August Nash, a heavyweight clash the entire underground smuggling community has been waiting for.

Upon returning home, Chase is hired by US soda billionaire Lauren Stanford to find the Fountain of Youth. At first, Chase dismisses this idea. But then Stanford tells her that an old friend found some information on the Fountain’s location and is now missing. Chase agrees to take the job—but only to find her friend—and enlists allies along the way on a trail from New York to London, and then on to Glasgow. But the Fountain is a smokescreen. A cover for something much older, much more terrifying. Chase finds herself in a race to find the Garden of Eden ahead of Nash and a group of Nazis. Whoever gets there first will have control over the future of humanity.

The End of Eden is a tense, exciting, and epic adventure novel, spanning three continents and broadening the world of the Marah Chase series, placing Chase in the unique position to confront questions of identity, faith, imperialism, and appropriation.

Originally published as Marah Chase and the Fountain of Youth by Pegasus Books in 2020.

Praise for Marah Chase

“Stringer effortlessly weaves a complex web of espionage and betrayal around a rip-snorting, larger-than-life adventure in the spirit of Indiana Jones.”
- Antony Johnston, creator of 'Atomic Blonde' and 'The Exphoria Code'

“Stringer, author of the Sam Ireland and Eoin Miller mysteries, has a winner here with Marah Chase―pulse-pounding adventure, in the best Indiana Jones tradition, with a charismatic gay woman fueling the action.”
- Booklist (starred)

“If you merged Ocean’s Eleven with Indiana Jones, you’d get Marah Chase and The Conqueror’s Tomb―a high-octane, pulse-pounding race to save the world from an ancient weapon.”
- Julie McElwain, author of the Kendra Donovan Mystery Series