#Fearless by Ben Koenig

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July Reads

You can tell that I took a week off from writing and had a couple of days completely to myself in July since I’ve managed to finish 10 books this month. All of them have been interesting, some of them completely upended me in the best of ways, and a few left me better than they found me. As of today I only have two books left to read for the History Girl Summer challenge I’m participating in over…

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The #Bookvent Calendar 2023: Day Nine

My day nine #bookvent choice is a book that is packed with action, thrills and a truly unforgettable lead character - a man who really knows no fear. @MWCravenUK @LittleBrownUK #books #bookvent2023 #fearless #thebookventcalendar

#Bookvent – Celebrating my top reads of 2023 My day nine #bookvent selection is by an author who has created one of the most memorable and celebrated series in recent years. His skill for creating lovable, if somewhat unconventional, characters is immeasurable, as his ability to create dark and twisted stories to enthral, entertain and amuse readers. This book, however, is a standalone, but the…

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New Blog: Fearless and Nobody's Hero

Fearless

Nobody’s Hero

Ben Koenig books 1 and 2

M. W. Craven

Flatiron Books

The Ben Koenig series by M. W. Craven will remind readers of a Lee Child type of hero. 

“They are very different styles and there's an easy explanation for that, since they we're written 10 years apart. I wrote the first one, Fearless, in 2015, but it didn't really get picked up until 2000. I honestly think it was about eight or nine years apart that I wrote the second book, so the style is very much like my current style as there's a bit more humor in it and the spy thing kind of happened by accident. And just like my Washington Poe series in in the UK, each of these books is very different to the previous one. I try not to go over the same ground.”

In Fearless, the main character, Ben Koenig, used to head the US Marshal’s elite Special Operations Group. His team hunted the bad guys. But after a bounty was put on his head he disappeared, going on six years now. Unfortunately, his face appeared on every television screen in the country and his cover is blown. But he is rescued by his boss in the US Marshals who asks him to find his daughter, which Ben agrees to. 

“Ben is distrustful, thinks he is invincible, curious, calm, fearless, stubborn, and a lateral thinker. Ben has this condition, Urbach-Wiethe, where 1% of the time it goes the other way, which is how Ben acts. He does not recognize dangerous situations. The example I use is that there is a lion in this alley and Ben would walk down it, anyway, not realizing he should be afraid. He is also a former SOG of the US Marshals, basically an assault team.”

In Nobody’s Hero, the plot opens with a shocking murder and abduction on the streets of London that leads investigators to open a safe in Langley for the first time in ten years. A note directs them to a few key individuals, with three of the people on the list dead. The fourth on the list is Ben Koenig. He realizes that he knows the woman who carried out the killings. Ten years earlier, without being told why, he was tasked with helping her disappear. Far from being a deranged killer, she is the gatekeeper of a secret that could take down America, and for the safety of the country, she has been in hiding for years. Now Ben must find her. But because of his condition of not being able to feel fear, he doesn’t always know when he should walk away.

Jen, Ben’s handler, played more of a role in this book. She can compartmentalize, is tough, and resourceful.  When I originally wrote it, she and Ben are friends. I changed it to give her a dark past and how she blames Ben from her fall from grace.  They really do not like each other.”

These books are fast paced, sometimes violent, and engrossing. Because the first book, Fearless, is more personal readers want to take the journey along with Ben and his handler, Jen.  The second book is more of a spy novel. 

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Fearless - M.W. Craven

Fearless, by @MWcravenUK. Cracking thriller.

Ben Koenig is nobody’s hero . . . because he doesn’t exist. Six years back Ben Koenig headed up the US Marshal’s Special Operations Group. They were the unit who hunted the bad guys. The really bad guys. They did this so no one else had to. And then one day Ben sold his house, liquidated his assets and disappeared off the face of the earth. He told no one why and left no forwarding address. For…

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Fearless (Ben Koenig #1) by M. W. Craven @MWCravenUK @LittleBrownUK @BethWright26

Fearless is a brilliant start to what is bound to become a hugely popular new series.

Source: Review copyPublication: 29 June 2023 from ConstablePP: 448ISBN-13: 978-0349135601 My thanks to Little, Brown for an advance copy for review Five million reasons why Ben Koenig had to disappear. Only one to bring him back . . . Ben Koenig is a ghost. He doesn’t exist any more. Six years ago it was Koenig who headed up the US Marshal’s elite Special Ops group. They were the elite unit…

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Nobody's Hero by M.W. Craven

Happy publication day to M.W Craven. Nobody's Hero, the second Ben Koenig thriller is out now, and I'm sharing my thoughts on the blog. Link in bio. @m.w.craven @littlebrownbookgroup_uk #books #bookreview #nobodyshero #bookstagram #booksofinstagram

Happy publication day to M.W. Craven as Ben Koenig once again set foot into the world in Nobody’s Hero. I absolutely loved book one, Fearless, so I delighted to have an chance to read ahead of publication day courtesy of publisher, Constable via Netgalley. Here’s what the book is all about: Source: NetgalleyRelease Date: 10 October 2024Publisher: Constable Continue reading Nobody’s Hero by…