A troubled, brutal childhood filled with vicious abuse and humiliation preordains him to be nothing but a drug addict and a criminal. And he excels in both undertakings. Stealing military aircraft sees him facing a possible death sentence. He escapes but is caught and spends three years in solitary confinement, then escapes again to start a new life under an assumed identity.
Nothing can temper his ambition, and even though he is an international fugitive hiding in plain sight, he lies, steals and fights his way to becoming a surgeon, engineer, shipbuilder, and entrepreneur. He creates and runs a military robotics company and several airlines. Always looking for opportunities he lies his way into the job of president of an international Chamber of Commerce where he fraternises with politicians and presidents. He is embroiled in a political scandal that sees two ministers sent to prison. To avoid capture he steals a yacht and sails single handed across the ocean.
Marc remains in hiding but when he runs out of money he fakes his own death to cash in on an insurance pay-out. The endeavour fails, and Marc flees once again. He cons his way into a job as an engineer and works in several countries before ending up in China where he works on a large project. His deception is not discovered, and he moves on to bigger projects until he eventually becomes a manager on a multi-billion-dollar project. During treatment for depression, Marc decides to give up everything and start a new, honest life.
In order to achieve this, he must first reveal his past in an exciting three part biography.
Nothing can temper his ambition, and even though he is an international fugitive hiding in plain sight, he lies, steals and fights his way to becoming a surgeon, engineer, shipbuilder, and entrepreneur. He creates and runs a military robotics company and several airlines. Always looking for opportunities he lies his way into the job of president of an international Chamber of Commerce where he fraternises with politicians and presidents. He is embroiled in a political scandal that sees two ministers sent to prison. To avoid capture he steals a yacht and sails single handed across the ocean.
Marc remains in hiding but when he runs out of money he fakes his own death to cash in on an insurance pay-out. The endeavour fails, and Marc flees once again. He cons his way into a job as an engineer and works in several countries before ending up in China where he works on a large project. His deception is not discovered, and he moves on to bigger projects until he eventually becomes a manager on a multi-billion-dollar project. During treatment for depression, Marc decides to give up everything and start a new, honest life.
In order to achieve this, he must first reveal his past in an exciting three part biography.
A Serpent's Conscience Marc's first book
"You play with words in a way that is new and refreshing but somehow also has something reminiscent of an age that is past where words were seen as a thing of beauty in themselves and not just a vehicle to make a point or to take a scene from A to Z. No one can read this book without taking great pleasure from what is almost an underlying rhythm that is somewhat hypnotic. It makes your style stand out and gives the book and extra depth and a dimension that is deeper and yet one can’t quite put one’s finger on what it its, the mechanics of it all, but it is evocative and mesmerising."
Cherry Mosteshar literary editor and author of 'Unveiled: One Woman's Nightmare in Iran'
Cherry Mosteshar literary editor and author of 'Unveiled: One Woman's Nightmare in Iran'
a serpent's conscience
nominated for best novel 2017 at writing.com
Publication date: sometime in 2019.
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impostor
a person who practices deception under an assumed character, identity, or name
The impostor is a specific type of liar who imposes on others dishonest stories about his identity and fabrications of his attainments, position, or worldly possessions. The impostor does this through misrepresentation of his identity, by presenting himself with a fictitious name, history, and other items of personal identity, either borrowed from some other actual person or fabricated according to some imaginative conception of himself. He is constantly in the pursuit of an identity which would do justice to his narcissistic conception of himself.
Impostors are successful because of their ability to anticipate the other’s truth. An impostor cannot exist if it were not for your vulnerability, greed or vanity.
Everyone is sometimes an impostor. When there is conflict between ego and ego ideal, it is not uncommon to resolve this conflict by pretending to be who we would like to be. So, there is no real difference between ‘normal’ hypocrisy, bragging, and narcissism, and pure imposture.
Impostors are successful because of their ability to anticipate the other’s truth. An impostor cannot exist if it were not for your vulnerability, greed or vanity.
Everyone is sometimes an impostor. When there is conflict between ego and ego ideal, it is not uncommon to resolve this conflict by pretending to be who we would like to be. So, there is no real difference between ‘normal’ hypocrisy, bragging, and narcissism, and pure imposture.
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