Pascal Marco Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Pascal Marco is an American published author. He is known for writing the books Identity: Lost and Render Safe.

Pascal was born on the South side of Chicago, on the far southeast side, where he grew up. He was the grandson of Italian immigrants and attended St. Francis de Sales Grammar School and High School. On his father’s advice, he stayed close to home and attended the University of Illinois Chicago, graduating with his B.A. and M.A. degrees in Communications and Theatre.

He continues to feel thankful and blessed every single day that he had the chance to grow up in the Windy City. He is happy that he grew up in a tight knit neighborhood and is proud of his working class roots and still maintains his passion for Chicago White Sox baseball. This place helped inspire him to come up with the rich, tough to forget characters that populated his debut novel Identity: Lost. The book would become an Amazon best-seller.

Upon input from his wife in 1994, Pascal decided that it was time to relocate and moved to Arizona to the Sonoran Desert. He became immersed in the Sonoran Desert through his volunteer time at Taliesen West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s studio. Here he would give tours of the architectural school’s complex and the desert that surrounded it. The beauty and the solace of the desert also helped renew his passion for writing. He would also join the Scottsdale Writers Group, which Marco recounts as being pivotal in helping him to develop his first novel and complete it.

His life long passion for The Chicago White Sox, the most under-appreciated team in baseball, ended up leading him to take on a position where he wrote op-ed pieces for the top fan web site of the team. This was after the Sox won the 2005 ALCS Championship and World Series after nearly a century of drought. He would write a regular feature for the site that was titled ‘Arizona Heat’ that followed the adventures of the fans as they went to the White Sox Spring Training season.

Today, Pascal continues to be an entrepreneur in the Chicago and Phoenix business communities. He owns a communications company and continues to do print and media work to this day. He has continued to stay connected to his roots in Chicago and still keeps in touch with family, friends, and classmates. He is married to his wife Karen and they reside in Mesa, Arizona. He has four children and many grandchildren. Karen works as a holistic nutritionist and coach.

He is a member of The International Thriller Writers group.

Identity: Lost is a 2011 book by Pascal Marco. If you have been looking for something new to read but you’re tired of the same old authors, give this crime thriller a try and see what you think of it.

In July 1975, an overworked Chicago police force gets the call that an older white man has been attacked at Burnham Park’s lakefront by a group of black youths. The public outrage is quick and excessive, and the mayor knows that he has to act quickly to get everything settled down again.

The 85-year-old man has passed away and Mayor Richard J. Daley tells his police force that they must track down the killers quickly so that the park can be perceived as safe to the public once more. There seems to be a lucky break in the case when James Overstreet, a 12 year old kid, steps forward and id’s five out of the six assailants. But it proves to be of no avail.

Despite the kid’s efforts and arrests being made, the detectives and the county attorneys mess up the case. The judge has no option but to release those who have been accused. This strange turn of events puts James’s life into jeopardy and means that the whole of the Overstreet family have to go into witness protection in Arizona. This effectively creates the type of nightmare that the witness is going to have to deal with for the rest of his life.

Thirty years in the future, that same young man has grown up and has become the most feared prosecutor in Maricopa County. His life ends up getting turned completely upside down when he finds that pats from the past go into the present, leading towards a climax that will have the reader shocked! What will happen in the end? Read Identity: Lost to find out!

Render Safe is a 2016 novel written by Pascal Marco. This is a book that is a little older but if you give it a chance, you might find that this suspenseful thriller becomes one of your favorites.

A house explodes with the occupants still inside, a mother and her two children. Stan Kobe is the person who gets the call and shows up to the crime scene, which is tough to stomach. The father is a former bomb technician with the Air Force and immediately becomes the main suspect. It seems like this case is open and shut until he goes missing and is never found again.

It will be another decade that goes by before a triple homicide with similarities to this old cold case appears. Only Kobe recognizes the familiar patterns that mean that whoever did this could be responsible for the case that goes back a decade.

Stan believes that the homicides are related and starts off on a journey to prove his theory to law enforcement while doing his best to take on both crimes and try to solve them. While on his quest, he ends up finding more than he bargained for and gets to the bottom of what he thinks is a domestic terrorism plot that is going to try and hit the city’s infrastructure.

Stan also is starting to believe that he might not just be investigating these crimes– he may be a target also. Can he stop a terrorist plot to render the situation safe and protect those he cares about while also solving these cases, or is he in over his head? Read Render Safe to find out!