Resurrection: A Memoir

by Richard Marinick

Resurrection is the story of Boston-born crime novelist Richard Marinick facing his fears and addiction to adrenalin, and the dark roads he travels to overcome them. Caught between two worlds--the South Boston criminal underworld and the Massachusetts criminal justice system--Marinick's demons convince him to take the "easy" way out. Employed by the District Attorney's office, then later as a trooper in the Massachusetts State Police, he crosses to the other side and works his way up from petty thief to full-fledged gangster in the Southie Irish mob, a cocaine-addicted enforcer, and bank and armored car robber until his apprehension at a western Massachusetts roadblock. Marinick does time in a half-dozen prisons, including a facility for the criminally insane. Resurrection chronicles the author's almost impossible struggle to change within the 'college for crime's inhabits for a decade. He utilizes the prison's education programs, psychological counseling services, and reconnects with God, but elements of the old life constantly beckon while he earns both undergraduate and graduate degrees, completes his sentence, and writes a local bestseller about the South Boston criminal underworld. Ultimately, Marinick's is a story of triumph, coming full circle, and his return as a Prodigal Son.

324 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 9, 2018

About the author

Richard Marinick held many jobs -- short order cook, junior civil engineer, automobile painter, nightclube bouncer and admin assistant to a District Attorney and even as a State Police trooper -- before deciding that he had enough of the "slow-lane, no-money life of a citizen." He was on a roll for years, "reveling in money, using way too much cocaine." But in 1986, at age 35 he was convicted of an armored-car robbery and sentenced to eighteen-to-twenty years in state prison. While incarcinerated, he earned his master's degree in liberal arts from Boston University. After prison, Marinick wrote Boyos during breaks on his job as tunnel worker on Boston's Big Dig. He's now working on his second novel, a private eye mystery.

Marinick lives in South Boston, Massachusetts.

Reviews

[marymruiter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read!


Interesting and entertaining true story of a man who spent time on both sides. of the law.
He writes of life as a criminal, a state trooper and a convict. His novels Boyos and In For A Pound are also well written and more than worth a look.