Blood and Gold, Book 3 in the Craige
Ingram Mystery Series
by Hawk
MacKinney
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BLURB:
Blood
and Gold, the third book in The Craige Ingram Mystery Series, once again tests
the instincts and skills of retired Navy SEAL/part-time private investigator
Craige Ingram. Lust, greed, body parts and unrestrained wild sex parties are
what await Craige Ingram when he leaves the comforts of his South Carolina home
to visit his former SEAL buddy, Detective Spinner Krespinak. Set in the
Colorado underbelly of a sordid sable and faux glitz ski mecca, Detective
Spinner Krespinak suspects drugs have made their way to the snowy playground
that is Aspen. An Olympic ski hopeful is brutally murdered, Spinner vanishes,
and Craige Ingram is shot as events spin out of control with a Catch-22 no one
anticipates.
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Wilhelm Hans “Ski” Janoski lived fast. His reckless ice-blue wildfire eyes ready for
any thrill…snow-covered mountain, sunny beach, his latest bedmate, or two or
three. So many bodies, so little
time. He pointed his ski pole up toward
the high peaks they'd traversed, “That portion across the ridge drifted more
than I thought.”
She licked his neck and ears; gave him a wicked purring
simper. Christy liked the fast lane;
hunted any novel untried thrill…fast living…faster men. She loved the wild streak in Ski…the wilder
the better. “It wouldn't have taken much
for those cornices to break loose.”
“You knew those upper slopes were closed before we took
those trails.”
“Sure I did.” He
coughed; spit. “Why let virgin deep
powder go to waste just because some college jock puts on a ski patrol parka;
marks boundaries he don’t know shit about?
Not the kind of skiing this Olympic gold medalist likes. Ski boundaries and groomed slopes are for
weekender fat cats who sit by the fire; guzzle martinis and margaritas; fat-up
on chips and guacamole dip.” Peacock
bluster...Ski Janoski’s trademark.
Guffed, “All their BS about avalanches…gimme a break! Even a half-assed skier can outrun an
avalanche. Avalanches are nothing but
big balls of snow. “No mountain ever
bested hot-dogger Janoski.” Ski howled his challenge at Mother Nature. “…no mountain ever will!”
Wilhelm Hans “Ski” Janoski lived fast. His reckless ice-blue wildfire eyes ready for
any thrill…snow-covered mountain, sunny beach, his latest bedmate, or two or
three. So many bodies, so little
time. He pointed his ski pole up toward
the high peaks they'd traversed, “That portion across the ridge drifted more
than I thought.”
She licked his neck and ears; gave him a wicked purring
simper. Christy liked the fast lane;
hunted any novel untried thrill…fast living…faster men. She loved the wild streak in Ski…the wilder
the better. “It wouldn't have taken much
for those cornices to break loose.”
“You knew those upper slopes were closed before we took
those trails.”
“Sure I did.” He
coughed; spit. “Why let virgin deep
powder go to waste just because some college jock puts on a ski patrol parka;
marks boundaries he don’t know shit about?
Not the kind of skiing this Olympic gold medalist likes. Ski boundaries and groomed slopes are for
weekender fat cats who sit by the fire; guzzle martinis and margaritas; fat-up
on chips and guacamole dip.” Peacock
bluster...Ski Janoski’s trademark.
Guffed, “All their BS about avalanches…gimme a break! Even a half-assed skier can outrun an
avalanche. Avalanches are nothing but
big balls of snow. “No mountain ever
bested hot-dogger Janoski.” Ski howled his challenge at Mother Nature. “…no mountain ever will!”
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
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
Links:
www.hawkmackinney.net
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Lol, just thinking that after reading the blurb and a couple of the other excerpts from the book tour, I could easily see this as a tv movie!
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