The Extractor

by Emory D. Kale

Overview

Daniel Jameson McKenzie is a widowed forty-six-year-old college professor whose youngest daughter, Amanda, is kidnapped while on a mission trip and carried away by men working for Ramón Duarte, a known drug and human trafficker. Frustrated when the US Government refuses to help, Daniel takes matters into his own hands.
He assembles an unlikely team of friends and family and flies secretly into a Third World country to attempt to extract his daughter. Unbeknownst to him, he is interfering in a covert CIA operation to manipulate the political leadership of Colombia in the wake of the assassination of its president, an operation in which Ramón Duarte is a key figure. And in the process, Daniel incurs the wrath of Nathan Stroud, the corrupt and powerful chief of the CIA's Special Projects Office.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162922445
Publisher:	Covenant Books
Publication date:	05/15/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	497 KB

About the Author

Emory D. Kale received a Bachelor of Science degree in speech communication from Florida State University in 1979. Following his graduation, he entered the United States Air Force, serving for nearly fifteen years, initially as an aircraft communications and navigations specialist while enlisted, and after receiving his commission, as an ICBM Missile Combat Crew Commander, Missile Operations Instructor, Code Controller, and ICBM Maintenance Officer. In his off-duty hours, he completed a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Missouri.
After his air force career, he entered a new chapter in his life in 1996 as an elementary school teacher at North Lakeland Elementary School in Lakeland, Florida, teaching both in the classroom and in running the school science lab. During this time, he became certified as a cave diver and open water scuba diving instructor. He also became an archery instructor and coach in both National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) and Scholastic 3D Archery (S3DA).
Retiring in 2018 after teaching public school for twenty-two years, he now devotes his time to teaching scuba diving, running an afterschool archery program as a volunteer, and writing. These activities along with his military background became the inspiration for some of the skills of his characters and the events that occur in his books.
He and his wife have been married for thirty-eight years, have two grown daughters, and two grandchildren. This is his first novel, but ever the optimist, he is presently engaged in the research and writing of the sequel to The Extractor.