About this series
Nighthawk: African Ice is a sequel to Nighthawk Crossing. Wanted by the FBI for murder and smuggling, Joseph Branson, Chief of the Midlake Indian Tribe, flees with his wife Hazel to the Maldives in the Indian Ocean where he is a business partner with Igor Romanoff, one of the world’s biggest arms merchants. All this is carefully watched by the CIA.
Joseph and Igor begin trading weapons for raw diamonds sourced from conflict zones in Africa (Blood Diamonds – African Ice). Joseph sets up a system to cut and polish the diamonds and profit from the added value. In the process, they wind up dealing with African Jihadists establishing the Central African Caliphate threatening to engage much of Northern and Central Africa in genocide.
Selling the cut high grade diamonds takes Joeph to Colombian Cocaine processors who trade immobile US Dollars for more mobile diamonds.
In the meantime, Hazel returns to the Midlake Indian Tribe and runs for Chief to replace Joseph. She is opposed. Her life is threatened and she kills.
Titles in the series (4)
- Nighthawk Crossing: Nighthawk Crossing, #1
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In the Okanagan and Similkameen region of the Pacific Northwest, large-scale smuggling is controlled by a motorcycle gang led by Joseph Branson, an ex-Navy SEAL and Chief of an Indian band. Their successful operation draws the attention of the FBI when Joseph ambushes and kills two Border Patrol agents using a highly classified weapon. When the same type of weapon turns up in the hands of the Taliban and Al Qaida, the FBI and CIA are tasked to identify the source – which turns out to be a factory the Chief has set up in partnership with the inventor and a Russian arms dealer. Follow the action as the gang battles the FBI and distributes their arms to jihadists.
- Nighthawk: The Deacon (Nighthawk Crossing Book 4): Nighthawk Crossing, #4
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Nighthawk: The Deacon is the 4th book in C. Edgar North's Nighthawk series. When Brian West – a.k.a The Deacon – passes away, a few of his former bosses in the CIA and Canadian intelligence agencies gather for a private Celebration of Life recounting some of Brian's escapades. Follow his life from coming of age to deep cover covert operations in the Soviet Union on to money laundering in the Americas.
- Nighthawk: Chief Hazel
Nighthawk: CHIEF HAZEL is a sequel to Nighthawk: AFRICAN ICE. With her husband, Joseph Branson, in exile wanted by the FBI on suspicion of murder and smuggling, Hazel returns to the Midlake First Nations Reservation where she takes over as Chief. She has great ambitions for advancing the welfare of the members of the reservation and encounters some degree of success. She also resumes smuggling which was formerly run by Joseph but she encounters some difficulties. Meanwhile, Joseph is profitably engaged supplying arms and munitions to Jihadists who wish to establish a caliphate in Eastern and Central Africa and with Naxalite Maoists planning an uprising in Eastern India. He is carefully watched by the CIA who use him as a valuable intelligence source. Joseph is pulled back to the reservation when their daughter is kidnapped by North Koreans who demand Hazel smuggle a team of saboteurs into America. Hazel kills again.
- Nighthawk: African Ice
Nighthawk: African Ice is a sequel to Nighthawk Crossing. Wanted by the FBI for murder and smuggling, Joseph Branson, Chief of the Midlake Indian Tribe, flees with his wife Hazel to the Maldives in the Indian Ocean where he is a business partner with Igor Romanoff, one of the world’s biggest arms merchants. All this is carefully watched by the CIA. Joseph and Igor begin trading weapons for raw diamonds sourced from conflict zones in Africa (Blood Diamonds – African Ice). Joseph sets up a system to cut and polish the diamonds and profit from the added value. In the process, they wind up dealing with African Jihadists establishing the Central African Caliphate threatening to engage much of Northern and Central Africa in genocide. Selling the cut high grade diamonds takes Joeph to Colombian Cocaine processors who trade immobile US Dollars for more mobile diamonds. In the meantime, Hazel returns to the Midlake Indian Tribe and runs for Chief to replace Joseph. She is opposed. Her life is threatened and she kills.
C. Edgar North
C. Edgar North is a pen name for Glen Witter. He is retired from an eclectic career as a "workforce development" consultant on projects in over 30 countries for development banks, NGOs, aid agencies and private sector clients. He is writing fiction under the C. Edgar North pen name to maintain a separation from his many non-fiction publications. Inspiration for his books evolve from his many experiences in 30+ countries citing geography and enlarging some already larger-than-life characters encountered in his travels. His experiences as a volunteer firefighter and paramedic, in marine and mountain search and rescue and as a deckhand/diver with a fishing fleet also contribute. Favorite sport is scuba diving (wreck diving) with underwater photography. Second favorite sport is fishing. He is also a golfer (frustrated) and was a downhill skier until his knees blew out. So far, his fiction works are: Nighthawk Crossing; Blood, Fire and Ice; Nighthawk: African Ice; Nighthawk: Chief Hazel; and Nighthawk: The Deacon and The Art Flogger Although the plots are fictitious, technologies inserted tends to be accurate.
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