NYMROD
RESURRECTION
By
Hawk McKinney
BLURB:
Investigating an unlikely murder, Ex-SEAL and
part time PI Craige Ingram discovers an officially sanctioned
assassination. His investigation quickly stirs beyond the dirty backrooms
of the nation’s capital with more killings across Europe and the Middle
East. The dead woman is somehow connected to stolen artifacts from a time
before Babylon. As he probes apparently unconnected clues, he locks horns
with an enigmatic enticing secret agent with her own agenda and her own way of
doing things. Craige faces train wrecks and deadly assassins doing
business with a rich mercenary selling biotoxins, rare stamps, deadly nerve
gases, and smuggled nuclear material to the highest bidder. As Craige peels
away at the shadowy Operation Nymrod, he finds an elusive
power-hungry dead-set mind – a driven obsession with a frightful arsenal of
bioweapons ready to fulfill ancient prophecies with a very personal Armageddon
that makes the monstrous last day of the twin towers of the World Trade Center
pale in possibilities.
Excerpt:
For years I'd used the
old house for everything from a hay barn to a tractor shed. The split shake roof was next to
nonexistent. Rafters and studs rotten
and termite honeycombed from subflooring up.
Termites long gone, courtesy of nearby mounds of fire ants. The hackberry tree off its back porch looked
solid until that hail and windstorm. A
blue-white crack of lightening split through its rotted heartwood, toppling the
trunk across what was left of the wobbly canted bricks of the chimney. The storm cleared leaving the shaky stump of
the fireplace and knobby chimney jutting up out of a tumbled pile of
bricks. Bright sunshine slashed across
pearly teeth in a decomposing skull; the neat bullet hole bull’s-eyed just
below the hair line.
It wasn’t long before Lucky was pawing at the back
door. Yelping that peculiar excited bark
I've learned not to ignore. The last
time it was a possum with her litter.
"Okay, come on...show me what you found."
He gave a sharp high-pitched yip. Pulled away for a few yards. Stopped, looked back, made sure I was
following. Then took off across the soy
bean field toward the airstrip. Stopped
ever so often. Looked back, checked to
make sure I was still coming with him.
He disappeared over the top of the low rises behind the hangar. When I topped the rise, I saw the storm
damage to the old house with Lucky up on the tumbled chimney’s pile of
bricks—tail wagging, looking down.
Getting closer, I spotted what had gotten him so riled. Pieces of field mouse chewed cloth poked out
from under the bricks. After pulling
back several, it didn't take an expert to recognize the mildewed remnants of
clothing sunk against desiccated skin gnawed down to gleaming cheek bones. I left Lucky to guard. Hurried back to the house. Brought back my digital camera. Photoed the body, the surrounding area, the
smears of hydraulic fluid on the runway and grass with the matching set of
wheel marks. Each set in landing gear
positions, adding up to a pair of choppers.
We'd stumbled into the muck of someone's cockamamie conspiracy, and
someone was already on my case. I called
Gray before I called the local sheriff.
AUTHOR INFORMATION:
With
postgraduate degrees and faculty appointments in several medical universities,
Hawk MacKinney has taught graduate courses in both the United States and
Jerusalem. In addition
to professional articles and texts on chordate neuroembryology, Hawk has authored several
works of fiction.
Hawk
began writing mysteries for his school newspaper. His works of fiction, historical love
stories, science fiction and mystery-thrillers are not genre-centered, but
plot-character driven, and reflect his southwest upbringing in Arkansas, Texas
and Oklahoma. Moccasin Trace, a historical novel
nominated for the prestigious Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War
Fiction and the Writers Notes Book Award, details the family bloodlines of his
serial protagonist in the Craige Ingram Mystery Series… murder and mayhem with a touch of romance. Vault of Secrets, the first book in the Ingram series, was followed
by Nymrod Resurrection, Blood and Gold, and The Lady of Corpsewood Manor. All have received national
attention. Hawk’s latest release in the
Ingram series is due out this fall with another mystery-thriller work out in
2014. The Bleikovat Event, the first
volume in The Cairns of Sainctuarie
science fiction series, was released in 2012.
"Without question,
Hawk is one of the most gifted and imaginative writers I have had the pleasure
to represent. His reading fans have something special to look forward to in the
Craige Ingram Mystery Series. Intrigue, murder, deception and conspiracy--these
are the things that take Hawk's main character, Navy ex-SEAL/part-time private
investigator Craige Ingram, from his South Carolina ancestral home of Moccasin
Hollow to the dirty backrooms of the nation's capital and across Europe and the
Middle East."
Barbara
Casey, President
Barbara
Casey Literary Agency
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What authors would you say have lent the most influence to you and your own personal writing style? Do you have any author idols that you try to emulate?
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