Resurrection

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' he 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.