Resurrected

by Norm Clark

The new administration's kinder, gentler CIA has clamped a tight lid on a horrific sequence of events in its European theater. Knowledge of the events would provide fodder for opponents of the Agency's new image and policies. Jack McDuff, the Agency's top rated covert agent over the past twenty years, has been reassigned to a desk job in Miami. Cast aside by the Agency, he has made the decision to resign when an unlikely contact makes him aware of the restricted intel and then presents a solution. Jack readily accepts the unsanctioned rogue mission, and sets out on the most difficult assignment of his career. He begins a journey fraught with danger, mistrust, uncertainty, and surprise. It will require every resource deveoped over the past twenty years to survive and succeed. Throughout his journey, he discovers new enemies, makes new friends, and uncovers secrets that will change his life forever. His search for the mastermind twists and turns through Europe and the Middle East, then halfway around the globe to Mexico, Texas, and the Caribbean to a final dramatic showdown with an ingenious conclusion.

364 pages, Paperback

First published September 11, 2012

About the author

Norm Clark has two action-packed thriller novels in the Jack McDuff series available in ebook and print formats (“Resurrected” and the recently published “The Saladin Strategy”). Number three is in the works.

His work is dictated by his upbringing and choice of friends through the years. He was born and raised in a military environment, which, to a large degree, set the tone for the genre. Input and stories from friends (a couple of Navy Seals, a Force Recon marine, and a Viet Nam era Air America pilot) greatly influenced his plotlines and writing style.

Reviews

[Christoph Fischer · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Resurrected: An Action Thriller" by Norm Clark is a spy thriller set in a post 9/11 CIA, at a time when the Agency needs a new, and more friendly image.
A 'situation' in Rome requires Jack McDuff to be taken out of his peaceful existence in Florida and be sent back into the field, where he investigates a possible leak of intel from within. Not working for the agency as such but as an 'outsider' lends his role an interesting touch.
Uncovering the identity of "Wolf" and other strands of the investigation lead us all over the globe, most enjoyably for me where the European destinations, many of which I have personally been to.
This is action packed and fast paced thriller, very enjoyable and entertaining.

[Pamela Clark · Rating 4 out of 5]

Right up to the ending this book moves along, and for sure doesn't fizzle out like so many.

[Kerry Reis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Under the dictate of a kinder, more open CIA, twenty-year veteran agent Jack McDuff has been grounded to a desk in the Miami station for the past year. However, after several agents have been killed in Europe by an unknown professional assassin, an old colleague contacts Jack, asking him to go to Rome and investigate on a rogue mission unsanctioned by the CIA. Out of loyalty to the slain agents and eager to head back into the field, Jack accepts, unaware that he will soon be targeted by the assassin and become involved in uncovering a conspiracy that extends from an Islamic terrorist organization in the Mideast, a drug cartel operation in Latin America and deep into the center of the CIA offices in Langley itself. In this little spy thriller, the author has crafted a very complex plot within 156 quick and mostly well-edited chapters, which should impress readers of this genre. However, the suspense is light as the main mystery is solved early and the reader is well aware that Jack, our hero with very loyal connections, quickly gets and maintains a step ahead of the villains, eventually handling this unsanctioned mission with superior intel and a few "deus ex machina" resolutions.

[Luke Reisdorf · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great story, lots of action, but could be better written.

[Jwonnacott · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a bad book, but as far as CIA/spy books go, I think there are some better ones out there.