Marc Olden was an American author of fiction and nonfiction.
Born on June 3, 1933, in Baltimore, Maryland, Olden attended Queens College in New York and served in the United States Army during the Korean War. After his service, he worked as a journalist and editor at New York-based news publications.
In 1973, Olden released a biography of activist Angela Davis. This book was soon followed by Cocaine, a study of cocaine in 1970s New York. Olden then began publishing crime and thriller novels under the Narc and Black Samurai series titles. Between 1973 and 1975, Olden released nine Narc novels and eight Black Samurai novels.
This prolific output continued into the 1980s and 1990s with twenty-one more novels, ending with Olden's last book, The Ghost, in 1999. He died in New York City in 2003.
Marc Olden's Black Samurai (1974) is a crime thriller novel about Robert Sand, an American GI who is trained by a Japanese samurai master to become the world's strongest fighter. Working alongside a former US president, Sand uses his martial arts...
