The books

The Full MP Collection

This collection brings together three works from multi-award-winning filmmaker Mark Playne that span nonfiction, true story and fiction.

From a forensic AI investigation that cracks open the COVID narrative, to the true story of a midnight ambush in Colombia where rehearsed logic becomes useless, to the fictional tale of a North African boy whose story will have you laughing out loud one moment and crying the next.

These are books about love, loss, hope, suffering and the strange beauty of life itself. But more than that, they are about the collision between what we are told and what deep down, we know.

MoMo - The novel

MoMo: The Incredible Adventures of Me, My Duck and a Man Called Wolof

Everyone tells MoMo what is possible. His poverty, his village, his beloved grandmother all say plainly: we are born into circles we cannot escape. But when MoMo watches geese fly overhead, something inside refuses to agree. Set in the crumbling ruins of a North African kasbah, this is the story of a boy whose inner compass proves more reliable than every rational voice telling him to stay small. A tale that will have you laughing and crying, sometimes on the same page. It writes about love, love lost, hope and pain with an honesty that reaches something deep and essential in the reader. Compared to The Little Prince and The Alchemist, it reminds us what children know before the world teaches them to doubt it.

★★★★★

"One of the most beautiful books I've ever read. It had me laughing out loud, crying with tears streaming down my face, and at moments it genuinely touched my soul." 

Dr Malik (read more MoMo reviews here>)

MOMO SHOP

3 Seconds in Bogotá

3 Seconds in Bogotá: A True Story of Travel, Terror and Survival

Mark Playne had prepared for everything. Six months travelling South America, every robbery scenario rehearsed, every precaution taken, three separate money stashes. Then came the moment his fortress of logic covered nothing: past midnight in the Colombian capital, armed men surrounding the taxi, a knife at the driver's throat, three seconds until the doors open. As time stretches and his rational mind flails, a voice emerges from somewhere deeper. This is not a book about planning. It is about what happens when planning and logic fails and something from deeper inside takes over.

★★★★★

"A Hollywood movie disguised as a travel memoir." – Adam Fletcher: Travel Author

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AI & I: Cracking the Corona Code

What happens when a filmmaker refuses to accept sanitised answers and pushes an AI until it reveals what institutions stayed silent about? This relentless interrogation examines the pandemic, the vaccines, excess deaths and suppressed treatments through chapter after chapter of evidence. The 2026 edition arrives substantially expanded and built for sharing, with new international data across 18 countries, new graphs and chapters protecting those most vulnerable to future pressure. Clear enough for any reader, rigorous enough for scientists, polished enough to hand to your GP.

★★★★★ 

"The information is extremely well put-together and explains scientific terms in a way that the man in the street can comprehend." – Dan Roberts

AI & I BOOKS

NEW! - AI & I Cracking the 9/11 Code

A review: "...The realisation that comes after reading this hits you in a way that you can't unsee.

I was reeling internally as I processed what it meant. 
 The lives lost tragically then and still climbing since. 
The world still hurting. The consequences felt and lived.

The official story reads like make believe and Mark Playne's investigation into this historic tragedy, unravels, untangles and ultimately unhinges the narrative we've been told for 25 years. 

With AI as a witness, cross examining the evidence, putting forward new angles, question after question to reconcile implausible explanations, Playne uncovers truths we've all suspected yet perhaps not pieced together, into one irrefutable reckoning of that fateful day's events...."

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