Mare Dennis Bruder was born in Los Angeles and served with the US Navy Special Forces in Vietnam from 1968 to 1971 followed by a psychology degree from the University of California, Northridge then an MBA from Pepperdine University. From 1974 to 1979 Bruder served as a Los Angeles County Deputy Probation Officer. The beginning of 1980 was the beginning of Bruder's work in the entertainment industry as a movie distributor to broadcasters worldwide. For the past 40 years BRI (Bruder Releasing Inc.) has been at the forefront of program content licensing to networks, stations, channels, and platforms globally with all genres and categories of programming. Marc is married to Diedra Ann Dunham Bruder for 30 years and recently moved from Santa Monica, California to La Quinta in the California desert for more golf days. Mystery Of The Black Lotus was written in 10 days and the next follow-up novel will be "Operation Panik"... stay tuned.
