Once a Marine

By: John Alden

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

He was trained to disappear.
She was targeted to be silenced.
Together, they became the one threat their enemies couldn’t predict.
When local councillor Mary Bishop begins uncovering corruption buried deep within Nottingham’s political landscape, she unknowingly steps into the crosshairs of a covert network that specialises in making problems vanish. What she doesn’t know is that she’s already being watched — not by enemies, but by a man who walked away from that world long ago.
Mark Harris was once the perfect asset. Royal Marine, deep‑recon operator, intelligence “ghost.” But when he abandoned the organisation that built him, they spent years hunting the one man who knew their secrets. The one variable they could never control.
When Mark saves Mary from a staged abduction, he violates every rule that ever kept him alive. Now the network wants them both — not to kill, but to erase. As they flee through hidden tunnels, safe houses, and abandoned airfields, Mary discovers the truth about Mark’s past… and why helping her has put him back on a kill‑list he barely escaped.
But Mary isn’t the woman they hoped to eliminate.
And Mark isn’t the asset they remember.
With a rogue police detective joining their cause and a forgotten intelligence unit coming out of the shadows, the battle turns. Loyalties fracture. Lies collapse. And the network will learn a fatal lesson:
Some people don’t run.
Some people fight back.
Explosive, emotional, and razor‑tense, this novel delivers a gripping journey through the dark world of covert operations — where the greatest weapon isn’t training or firepower… but trust.