Today's post is a Super Book Blast for Nymrod Resurrection by Hawk MacKinney, a Mystery/Suspense available now from Wandering Sage Publishing. As a Book Blast, there is no interview or guest post, but I will post a blurb and excerpt, and a bit about the author. One randomly drawn commenter will win a $20 Amazon gift card, so please leave your e-mail address when you comment. I will also post links to the other blogs on the tour.
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
Blurb for Nymrod Resurrection
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 from Nymrod Resurrection:
On
the second-floor landing I spotted familiar faces from the department's
forensic team. The smell was worse
inside. With that first look I didn't
need to be told that the pulpy lump with swollen pumpkin dimples where eyes
should have been was one very bloated dead body. The corpse was well into being recycled. It no longer looked human. The body had been cooking in the sweltering
oven of a Dixie mid-August scorching summer in this dreary one-flight walkup of
apartments with no AC and painted-shut windows. Near the peeling paint archway and a worse kitchenette beyond I
spotted Gray huddled with just over five feet plus, roly-poly Coroner-Medical
Examiner Fred Dinkins.
"What
you got?" I asked.
Gray
indolently heaved a getting-paunchier fried chicken and beer belly and idly
mumbled, "We’re not quite sure...." threw me that MacGerald
we-got-trouble look. "Right now
all I know for sure is, it's no run-of-the-mill homicide."
There
was more in his look than his words. It
was all over his face that things weren't going the way he liked. I’d known that from the moment I
disconnected from his call. He wouldn't
have made the call for a squabble between drifters over street drugs or a
grocery cart of scrounged throwaway clothes.
When a corpse is concealed, long term or otherwise and left to rot,
decomposition can alter forensic evidence until it tells other stories—but not
usually ones you want to hear. Dinkins
had his work cut out for him and his crew.
It’s one way perps buy themselves time, and concealment usually means
there’s considerable more that went down.
In my wildest night-stalks I could never’ve imagined how
right-on-the-money that would prove to be.
Ignorance is bliss…our SEAL team learned real quick. It can also get you
killed.
Without
looking up Dinkins said, "One more pitiable devil that died alone.”
Piercing blue eyes peered over his ever-present black wire-rim glasses perched
unsteadily on the end of his nose. In
low-key measured words, "Prelim exam leads me to believe the corpse is
female, but we'll wait till we get the body to the morgue, see what the autopsy
and lab tests tell us. I don’t want any
second guessing the evidence. Besides, we’re about finished up here."
The
dreary apartment was busier than it’d seen in decades with double shifts of the
forensic techs bustling-sorting the whens and hows of death. The cracker box kitchen adjoined a corner
next-to-nothing squalid dinette area furnished with a dirty Masonite wobbly
table barely big enough for two. In the
front room the melon-round, no-neck head squatted square on the bloated chest
of the oozing corpse. The whole
misshapen inhuman mess had sagged into the soggy sofa.
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