Bozeman Library

Meet the Author

Mark Sullivan

Bozeman Public Library is honored to host a book reading by award-winning author Mark Sullivan.

Mr. Sullivan will read from his new novel, “All the Glimmering Stars.” This event is free and open to the public. Please arrive early for best seating.

Mark Sullivan is the acclaimed author 0f “Beneath a Scarlet Sky” and “The Last Green Valley” as well as the bestselling “Private” series which he co-authors with James Patterson.  He has received numerous awards including the WH Smith Fresh Talent Award, and his novels have been named a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year.

“All the Glimmering Stars” is based on the harrowing real-life experiences of two Ugandan teens kidnapped along with some 35,000 others and turned into underage warriors for a messianic warlord. Propelled by shocking and tragic details of what Anthony Opoka and Florence Okori were forced to endure as members of Joseph Kony’s fanatical Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Sullivan’s page-turning narrative is also a triumphant love story filled with life-affirming humanity.

Mark Sullivan learned of Anthony and Florence’s story from a former squadron commander of SEAL Team 6 and the former CIA chief in Uganda. Believing the tale needed to be shared with the world, he traveled to Uganda in 2021. Over the course of fifteen days, he interviewed Anthony and Florence, who, despite all they had lived through, were “warm, intelligent, gracious, thoughtful, and painfully honest.” Sullivan has taken the raw material of their ordeal and transformed it into an engrossing, faithful, and soaring work of historical fiction.

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