Joseph Anthony

The Marshall Effect Joseph Anthony

Publisher Marketing: The Marshall Effect Who is Peter Marshall? How did a man go from being a highly respected professor at Cambridge University with a stellar future to become an ex-convict with lethal unarmed combat skills? What is it about Peter Marshall that makes the academic world, the Government and the national security police, The Special Branch, search the length and breadth of England to find him? Dr. Peter Marshall was a brilliant scientist who had made a startling scientific breakthrough, known as The Marshall Effect. This discovery had the potential for dramatically changing the Nation's economy and England's role on the world stage. It was made just before Peter suffered a major tragedy and went off the rails, a trajectory resulting in him being sentenced to prison. After his release, Peter disappeared from society, turning his back on friends and family as well as his career to vanish into obscurity and anonymity. When Peter unleashed his lethal skills to stop an ugly situation from becoming very serious, he decided to leave London to avoid any complications in his dreary but undemanding existence. Peter's skills came into play on two further occasions, the last completely changing his aimless existence and transformed his life. A former friend and colleague, Dr. George Martin, tried and failed to unravel the mystery of Peter's breakthrough despite receiving millions in Government funding based on the potential significance of The Marshall Effect. When senior politicians and civil servants learned of Dr. Martin's failure and realized that his failure could result in the wastage of millions of pounds of Government money as well as the ruin of several careers, Special Branch was called in to find the missing scientist. Dogged determination eventually located the elusive Peter Marshall at the same time as fickle fate started to drag him back into academia. This exciting page-turner of a novel will cause readers to lose sleep as they follow the fall and rise of the brilliant Peter Marshall, a man who had extraordinary effects on others but seemingly was unaffected himself. This book has memorable characters, sudden and unexpected action and the rehabilitation of a societal reject through love, happenstance and the persistence of people who forced their way into the life of the discoverer of The Marshall Effect. Contributor Bio:  Anthony, Joseph Joseph Anthony is the pen name of an internationally-respected scientist who has published extensively in the scientific literature and written a number of textbooks and contributed chapters to many specialized monographs in science and the biomedical field. He now lives in San Antonio, Texas with his wife Susan and their two cats Marvin and Simon. This is his second collaboration with Gary Hoover on true police stories.