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JACK CROCKETT

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Full Name: Jack Crockett
Nationality: American
Organization: Homeland Security
Occupation Part-Time Agent

Creator: D. P. Mitchell
Time Span: 2016 - 2017

ABOUT THE SERIES

Jack Crockett is agent with Homeland Security.

Well, maybe. He is associated with them for much of the time we follow his actions but he is known by, and called upon by, the U.S. Chief Executive so perhaps it would be better to say he was a Presidential Agent. Then again, he is said, rightly or wrongly, to be a freelance agent - even a mercenary - so the matter does get muddied.

One thing not so murky is the fact that Crockett - and that is how he prefers to be called - is an imposing figure both to those he goes up against and to many he is trying to help. First, he is "tall and powerfully built", something that helped him make a name for himself in the NFL back before he abruptly left sports and went to work soon after for the government. He has jet black hair "cut short, though longer than military grade".  "His face was rugged but not leathery, attractive but not quite handsome. His nose bent at a slight angle. With his musculature and air of confidence, he would have been sexy even without the eye patch". That patch was over his left eye, "a souvenir of another long-ago battle"; his one remaining visible eye was an alluring turquoise. To the woman who was making these observations, he "projected an air of contained violence", and she was no stranger herself to violence.

Regarding his days on the professional gridiron, it is said that he became a bit annoyed at a linebacker on an opposing team who had beat up his girlfriend and bragged that no one could touch him. Crockett proved him wrong in the next game by breaking the man's leg, intentionally. He quit the NFL the next day.

Crockett then joined the military, went on to become a Special Forces operator, served for a few years and then left. Some reports had him becoming a mercenary but the truth seems to be that he became a weapon made available as needed to whatever department had use of his impressive talents for getting the job done, regardless of how many limbs (of others) he might have to break.

BOOKS

Number of Books:1
First Appearance:2017
Last Appearance:2017

1 The Hyperion Web The Hyperion Web
Written by D. P. Mitchell
Copyright: 2017

"Washington, D.C. is in ruins, but no group has come forward to claim responsibility for the attack. How can the government protect against an unseen enemy with unknown motives? In their hour of need, they turn to the one man who may be able to help them, a man who may have already unknowingly encountered the enemy.
Jack Crockett, former Special Forces legend, must find the enemy and stop them, but his initial attempts hit dead ends. He seeks advice from the mysterious Lazerus, but is nearly killed by forces manipulated by the enemy, Hyperion. They are everywhere and nowhere. Who are they and what do they want? And what else are they planning?"
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NOVELLAS AND SHORT STORIES

Number of Stories:1
First Appearance:2016
Last Appearance:2016

1 The Tahitian Tangle The Tahitian Tangle
Written by D. P. Mitchell
Copyright: 2016

"When elite CIA operative Justine Beckett is given the assignment to protect Avery Jones, a burned-out computer expert on vacation in Tahiti, she’s initially skeptical that the mission is worthy of her considerable skills. But Avery Jones is no ordinary software jock and the system he and his team have created, Sentinel, is vital to U.S. national security interests."
Jack Crockett makes a very brief appearance though does not have anything to do with this adventure.
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MY COMMENTS

This is a series - of sorts. By the statement given in the promo for the novella, "This short novel is the first in a planned series of thrillers revolving around Jack Crockett and his associates." About half way through the adventure, the story pauses and a brief segment shows Jack Crockett at rest from a very nasty escapade only to receive orders to head to a nearby country for the assignment described in the book.

No new book or story in this universe was forthcoming.

Crockett is an enjoyable character to follow although the storyline is exceedingly dark at the beginning.

GRADE

My Grade: B-

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