User:Seathen/Emerald (book)

Emerald is a fiction novel written by Mark Simmons and published by The house Publishers in 2008. Emerald is the first book in the Eric Hunter series which features a feudal police officer in lovia and the crimes that he solves. The book was an immediate success in the US and Lovia. Currently the book has been translated in two languages and currently being translated and published in Spain for the South American and Spanish markets.Epic Production Company is currently filming the pilot episode of the TV crime series based on the book. ==

Inspiration== The mark Simmons’ inspiration came from three short stories he wrote in his last year of high school. ‘Take me’ was a short story written for an English creative writing assignment about a Fedual police officer Eric hunter. Though the short story was never published to the world until recently added to his site the short story was the backbone of the fictional character. In the short story Eric hunter was portrayed a lot older than he is in the books, as a 40 year old while in the books he was considered in his 20’s. He was seen as more of a grouch and unpopular among his co workers. The second Short Story written for a short story competition in lovia when mark was 17 Eric hunters was slowly shaped into the character we know of him today. He was seen as younger and more popular among his peers but still keeping hat rouge and un PC behaviour of him. The Short story focussed deeply on the personality of Eric hunter. The Short Story won the lovian youth Short Story competition and came second in the US based competition.

Mark Simmons wrote the first draft of his novel while he was at oxford. Originally it was written for his own enjoyment and the draft was left untouched till he finished university and moved back to Lovia. When his small café was having financial problems he decided to complete his novel and get it published to raise extra cash for the struggling business. The book was published at the end of May and sold very well in lovia. The book was then sold in the US and UK by the end of July.

Synopsis
The first chapter the reader immediately goes straight into the action with Eric hunter while as a private investigator was investigating fraud got caught up in a pub brawl which resulted in him send several men to hospital and him shooting dead two assailants. This resulted in him put on trial but was released. He lost his private investigators license and he left the UKL to search for a new job. He joins the Lovian Fedual Police as a Fedual officer. His first assignment was to investigate the murder of a school girl in Hurbanova. The School girl Rosie Parker went missing from her home, two days later her body was found in an abandon house in the outskirts of Hurbanova. Eric Hunter teamed up with Detective constable Julie Waters, an Oceania State Police officer. They Question the Rosie parkers father Hans Waters which leads them to investigate the mans checkered past. The investigation leads the pair to Paris where the under cover and investigate the murder of Rosie Parkers mother. They are arrested in Paris by the French police for spying.

Eric hunter along with his companion Julie Water escapes from the French police station but results in the death of Julie. He proceeds back to lovia where he narrowly escapes from a assassination attempt. He finds out that the feudal and state police are after him for the murder of Hans and Rosie Parker. He discovers who had set him up. He slips into the police Chief John brown’s house to confront him which leads him to investigate a smuggling ring that had smuggled controlled by john brown that had smuggled Hans and Rosie in but had murdered both of them. He and a couple of ex military guys attack and the smuggling hideout. He gets the evidence he needs to arrest the police chief and clears his name.