Marvin Wiebener’s experience, like so many, prepared him for life unexpected. From barely finishing high school to college dropout Wiebener struggled with his self-made set of muddled circumstances until the day he scrawled his signature on a U. S. Marine Corps recruitment form.

After military service and with the help of the G.I. bill, part time construction work and a regular paycheck provided by his wife Nancy he was able to eventually acquire both a Bachelor and Masters Degree. The next twenty-five years were devoted to developing and operating rehabilitation programs for delinquent and youthful offenders, including some of the worst young criminals in his home state. During that period he and his wife raised two children and while on their way to counting down the few years until retirement Nancy discovered she had cancer, loosing the battle in 1994 at the age of fifty.

Wiebener eventually remarried and Peggy, his wife encouraged him to follow his dream of becoming an amateur archaeologist and within a few months he was immersed in the field under the tutelage of Lee Bement, PhD. Weeks later Wiebener was diagnosed with an illness similar to Lou Gehrig’s ALS, a progressive motor neuron degenerative disease. Dismayed by the diagnoses but not deterred from his dream Wiebener continued his study toward amateur status and instead of working the dig sites, something he was looking forward to, he put his energy into writing.

As his writing began to take shape, which took a very long time, a story emerged that combined his sense of adventure and his desire to study ancient civilizations. The Margin, a contemporary mystery novel that joins elements of Wiebener’s personal life, his yearning to know more about our past and his talent for story telling all come together in his first tale of lost treasure, kidnapping and murder. As in any story a favorite character appears on the scene usually in the form of the good guy. Crys Stanton became the reader’s favorite in The Margin and as Wiebener’s second book progressed she transitions smoothly into the world of international espionage in The Moriah Ruse a thrilling spy novel of danger and intrigue. 

The foundation of Wiebener’s second novel began in the early 1980’s when he met and befriended a family that had just emigrated from their native Iran soon after conservative clerics ousted the Shah. Forty years since that event, a culmination of strict religious rule, hatred for anything ‘Western’ and an obsession to rid the planet of what clerics call infidels has cast the Islamic Republic of Iran into a rather frightening adversarial role. Wiebener captures the essence of an operation developed and carried out by the CIA director to gather irrefutable proof of Iran’s progress toward nuclear weapons proliferation.