Amazon Hawk MacKinney Barnes & Noble Category:  Action/Thriller Publisher: Wandering Sage Publications ISBN-10:  1933300689 Type: Fiction Pages: 325 Copyright: 2010 ISBN-13: 9781933300689 PI ex-SEAL Craige Ingram investigates a puzzling killing, an officially sanctioned assassination, which stirs beyond dirty trick back-rooms of the nation's capital with more killings across Europe and the Middle East. The dead woman somehow connected to stolen artifacts from a time before Babylon, as Ingram locks horns with an enigmatic enticing secret agent with her own agenda. 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 Nymro∆, he finds an elusive power-hungry dead-set mind--a  driven obsession with a frightful arsenal of bio-weapons 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 Having come through the fire and brimstone of a proverbial Sodom and Gomorrah, all of Avram's squads were quarantined, tested for biowarfare exposures. Yael and I laid squatter's claim to a rocky outcrop shared with more than a few bad-tempered desert scorpions. One star-spackled evening, huddling under our poncho-like blankets into the soft dawn, our breaths fogged in the crisp desert chill. Her head on my chest, we watched an oblate moon rise out of the eastern dunes. Its orange orb surged squat to round, slowly blanching the ocean of sand and ghostly wadis with otherworldly haunting silvers. My bandaged hand pushed back her hair, and pulled her soft wonder against me. She brushed a small desert flower along the side of my cheek, "...a desert gift for you. Purple Oshar, Sodom's Apple for my badw Bedouin warrior."

Nymro∆ Resurrection
"There's a fine line between the blood-heat of battle and the mating tango."

Craige Ingram is an Ex-Seal who joins with two of his former anti-terrorist unit comrades to solve an enigmatic murder. The situation soon escalates into an international intrigue, with secret spy agencies and assassinations popping up all over the place. Encrypted codes and computer files uplink with satellites, cell phones, and rockets to help portray how today's interconnected society can be hijacked for high stakes and terrorist manipulation. It takes trained soldiers with both bravery and brains to keep one step ahead of them. Ingram and his pals, Spinner and Gray, have both in spades and are not afraid to use them. They follow the leads to an unearthed tomb in the Middle East that dates from before the Kingdom of Sumeria.

What connections this ancient tomb has with modern day terrorism unfolds with the action-filled plot. The author's use of language carries us into the minds of these men where the testosterone flows and the muscles pump hard. Their characters come into bold relief as we see them bypass obstacle after obstacle, so often in the shape of another law enforcement bureau. The essentially libertarian ethos at the heart of their motivations is the perfect foil for the despotism of the terrorists and criminal masterminds they face. Neither faction is concerned with bureaucratic niceties and the writer explores this theme with a deft hand and persuasive argument.

Peter M. Fitzpatrick, US Review