Jack Clark – författare

QUENTIN TARANTINO on NOBODY'S ANGEL: “My favourite fiction novel this year was written by a taxi driver who used to hand it out to his passengers. It’s a terrific story and character study of a cabbie in Chicago during a time when a serial killer is robbing and murdering cabbies. Kudos to Hard Case Crime for publishing Mr. Clark’s book.”TWO KILLERS STALK THE STREETS OF CHICAGO—CAN ONE TAXI DRIVER CORNER THEM BOTH?Eddie Miles is one of a dying breed: a Windy City hack who knows every street and back alley of his beloved city and takes its recent descent into violence personally. But what can one driver do about a killer targeting streetwalkers or another terrorizing cabbies? Precious little—until the night he witnesses one of them in action...

Chicago private eye Nick Acropolis is back with a new adventure. Billy Mansfield has been on Death Row for more than 20 years, and Nick helped put him there in his days as a Chicago homicide detective. Now he's asked to find evidence to free him. Could Billy Mansfield really be innocent? "e;Westerfield's Chain,"e; the first Nick Acropolis novel, was a Shamus Award finalist. "e;A great read,"e; --Publishers Weekly "e;A pure delight for many reasons, not the least of which is the way Jack Clark celebrates and rings a few changes of the familiar private eye script...There's a memorable moment [on] virtually every page."e; --Chicago Tribune "e;A likeable protagonist and spirited, uncluttered prose."e; --Kirkus Reviews "e;Jack Clark's descriptions are beautifully haunting and his plotting is exceptional."e; Romantic Times.

"e;Westerfield's Chain,"e; was first published by St. Martin's in 2002, and was a Shamus Award Finalist.  KirkusReviews said: "e;When someone asks ex–homicide cop Nick Acropolis if he misses being on the job, he replies, "e;Every fucking day,"e; acknowledging a painful truth. He misses the work, the camaraderie, but most of all the self-respect, that sense of himself as someone who matters, acquired over the 15 years he served as a high-profile Chicago police detective—and snatched from him wrongfully, he insists, by men who knew better. Now Nick's a small-timer, a hand-to-mouth p.i. investigating the peccadilloes of other small-timers and hating every minute of it—as he's hating the minute he serendipitously bumps into spunky young Rebecca Westerfield, who's searching for her missing father while Nick's tracking down the missing witness to a minor auto accident. On the surface, there's not much to connect the two cases, but Nick ever regards a surface as the thin veneer of a secret—in this case, a lot of secrets, most of them nasty, fraudulent, or positively lethal. Before he's through sleuthing, Nick uncovers a multimillion-dollar welfare scam, solves a brutal murder or two, locates Becky's worthless dad, and lightens the lives of a couple of eminently worthwhile ladies. In addition, he gets to experience the heady pleasures of a higher profile once more as he thumbs his nose at the corps of bilious blue-clad bureaucrats who summarily sacked him.The Chicago Tribune called the book the best mystery of the month and said, "e;There's a memorable moment [on] virtually every page."e;

Aspen Policy Books is a series of annual publications that address the United States' most formidable and pressing national security and foreign policy challenges. This edition is a collection of papers commissioned for the 2018 Aspen Strategy Group Summer Workshop, a bipartisan meeting of national security experts, academics, private sector leaders, and technologists. The introduction by Nicholas Burns, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., and Condoleezza Rice provides an overview of technology's impact on key pillars of American power and offers practical recommendations to meet the daunting challenges this technological era imposes. The chapters in this volume evaluate the disruptive nature of technological change on the U.S. military, economic power, and democratic governance. They highlight possible avenues for U.S. defense modernization, the impact of disinformation tactics and hybrid warfare on democratic institutions, and the need for a reinvigorated innovation triangle comprised of the U.S. government, academia, and private corporations.

Honest Labor is a memoir about Jack Clark's days as a struggling writer, truck driver,and furniture mover. The book--73,000 words spread over 90 chapters--talks about the rewards of learning difficult trades and doing them well, the problem-solving nature of the jobs, and the allure of the highways, byways, and abundant roadside attractions.There are 3,500,000 truck drivers in the U.S. but less than a thousand long-haul furniture movers. Unlike your average driver, who mostly run regular routes, going back and forth over the same old roads, the long-haul furniture mover goes everywhere and anywhere.But the biggest difference between the two drivers is what they carry. If a freight truck overturns and scatters its contents along the highway, burns to the ground, or goes through a guardrail and into the lake below, somebody makes a phone call and they send another truck loaded with the exact same thing.Go into that lake with a fully loaded moving van and there go the wedding photographs, grandmother's ashes, your paintings, diaries, all the books that you love, and all the rest of your physical possessions. There's no truck coming that can replace all that.  And you'll probably remember that truck driver for the rest of your life. But it won't be fondly.