PROMO~BAD II THE BONE By Anton Marks

BAD II the BONE

 Beauty is only skin deep but evil is Bad to the Bone 

Yvonne Y Sinclair, Suzanne Suzy Wong Young and Cleo Patra Jones are three ordinary women who share extraordinary mystical gifts. But they would exchange it all in a heartbeat for financial independence. 

Bad II the Bone – was to be that independence. An emporium of health and beauty providing everything the 21st century woman needed to shine. But when Y’s ex steals their seed money, higher powers intervene and set them on their true course. 

They have been ordained with the power of the Watunza Mwanga – legendary guardians of the light who have protected the balance between good over evil since civilization began – and they are compelled to continue in that tradition as modern day bodyguards. They cross paths with Spokes - a successful London club promoter who is the catalyst for supernatural murder and mayhem on the streets of London. 

Enoch Lacombe aka Darkman was settling old scores with a power that was ancient and terrible in an orgy of bloodshed. Spokes has something he wants and he is cutting a bloody swath through London’s criminal underworld to get to him. 

But keeping Spokes alive – a key to their destiny - was easier said than done. They may be the chosen warriors of the light but when Darkman unleashes hell on earth, with the aid of Detective Winston Shaft McFarlane, Bad II the Bone must face their greatest fears to stop him. 

The first time Anton Marks ever put pen to paper, he was in third grade, Sheffield, Yorkshire England and his adventure story written in one of his exercise books - with text and drawings - was doing the rounds through the primary school ranks, causing a bit of a furore. The story eventually went on to get a gold star from his head master, who recommended he tone down on the implied sex and violence next time. 

Soon after that his parents who had lived in England for 25 years decided to go home to Jamaica.

Anton's true adventure was just about to begin.

He absorbed the island completely. Its customs, superstitions, language, music, people and with the enthusiasm only a budding young observer of human nature could. 

Louise Bennett - Miss Lou - one of his earlier influences, helped to mold on aspect of his uniqueness. She was a Jamaican author, who popularized the mythology of West Africa in the guise of the spider God Anancy and was the first person to express Jamaican patois - Jamaican dialect - in written form. Anton would use this in all his work.

With his passion for science fiction, adventure, horror and crime fiction. Coupled with an unhealthy obsession of genre cinema and TV. You have the eclectic style of Anton Marks in a combustible nutshell that he likes to call Urban Fantastic.

Anton Marks is now based in London and hopes his unique voice and stories of the Urban Fantastic will excite and thrill a growing fan base around the world.

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Why a novel like this? A supernatural thriller with three preternaturally gifted, racially diverse chicks that normally would not be included in the world of magic and demons.  

Well why not?  The ordinary man needs reassurance from the things that go bump in the night too, right?

Our hunger for horror has only got more pronounced over the years and if you’re going to add a new voice to such a venerable genre then let it come from a slightly different angle.  Introducing the Author Anton Marks who combines a fanatical love for horror, crime, sci-fi fiction and film, whose Caribbean roots and his affinity for the ghetto lifestyle creates a unique voice. Anton created female characters that were not too distant from his own experiences. They loved clothes, music and loved each other yet they had the courage and strength of will to battle the unknown.

The idea crystallized in his mind as war on gang violence and terrorism in his home town of London. didn’t seem like too big a fictional leap as he considered the ordinary man’s fight against evil. That led him to think how would the common man protect themselves against supernatural threat in the world he was creating?

That’s why the girls came about.

Bad II the Bone are what Bantu speaking mystics call  ‘Watunza Mwanga’  the modern day incarnations of the  ones who have maintained the balance of good and evil since time immemorial. And they were gifted to tackle the supernatural threats to the common man anywhere it may present itself.

Gang violence has a lot of people living in the inner cities worried. And it seems communities around the world are suffering the effects of one nightmare after another. There’s a feeling that we have no one to turn to for support or a solution. A feeling that soon all our nightmares will manifest and we will be helpless against a tidal wave of violence and intolerance that will overwhelm us all.

You can see why society has a hunger for stories about zombies, vampires and conspiracies.

Anton’s response to that trend is Bad II the Bone.  They are a street level deterrent, an estrogen fuelled blunt instrument against the human monsters and metaphysical nightmares that want to encroach on the bright lights of our world of Smartphone’s and instant connectivity.

More….

The characters of Y, Suzy Wong and Patra have been given the tools to fight fire with fire.

Anton had always been inspired by music especially the rhythms of Jamaica. Reggae has had a deep seated connection with spiritual evil and taking on the responsibility of destroying it and that amongst other tidbits fashioned the tone of the story.  As The Wailer, Peter Tosh sang:

Unuh old vampire,

Only like to see blood running.

But sure you know it's fire burning,

Unuh set ah vampire.

Throughout writing the novel the words from another creative, the bestselling author Laurel K Hamilton and her popular creation Anita Blake , seemed to hold an odd significance to his creations.

“Stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.”

In the real world you are unable to take those words to heart and can only hope the ideal of justice will prevail. But on the streets of Bad II the Bone, they are the final line of defense against monsters of the human persuasion and the ones squeezing through the cracks into our reality.

Beauty is only skin deep but evil is Bad II the Bone

ISBN –  978-0-956266-00-2