C. Edgar North has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 1 narrator. The most-rated is NightHawk Crossing.
Blood, Fire and Ice
Summary
Blood, Fire and Ice takes the listener into the realm of corporate terrorism. The global association of petroleum producers resorts to murder, sabotage, and political bribery to prevent the development of an abundant new fuel source that threatens their existence.
Members of an international Arctic research team developing an abundant new fuel source are targeted. Labs are destroyed and members killed. Canadian team members have their funding cancelled at the request of three senators who are on the payroll of "Big Oil". Police ignore the researchers' pleas for help when some are murdered. They are rescued in a joint FBI-CIA operation seeking to protect the new technology.
Surviving team members are moved to safety and recruited to complete their project jointly funded by Japan, Russia, and an American scientific foundation. Sabotage continues with a seaborne attack on an offshore drilling platform off Japan and blocking attempts countering patent filings. The Japanese government considers itself at war with the oil interests.
A blackmailing Canadian senator is killed by "Big Oil" and his legacy of secrets are a ticking bomb waiting for discovery threatening both the Prime Minister of Canada and the oil association. The secrets eventually surface and all hell breaks loose.
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The Art Flogger
Summary
Linda DuPont has a successful career as a fine art auctioneer on cruise ships until she marries the love of her life and settles on the island of Cozumel, Mexico. There she partners with her husband successfully growing a tourist diving operation, boosting local artists and raising three children. Tragedy strikes when her husband, Dan dies. She sells the business and moves to Bellingham, Washington to be close to family. Eventually, she establishes as a famous art auctioneer in demand across America. She is approached by a Texan billionaire to help sell some of his art collection unaware he is a king pin in a Colombian drug cartel. As the DEA begins to investigate art sales linked to cocaine dealers, she is eliminated as a loose end.
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Nighthawk: The Deacon
Summary
When a retired spy passes away, his former handlers gather on a yacht in the Florida Keys for a private celebration of his colorful life. The Deacon, also known as Brian West, was a genius socio-psychopath who spent the Cold War working for both Canadian Intelligence and the CIA, while his fluency in Romance languages led to work in Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Central and South America. In Nighthawk: The Deacon, those closest to him recollect his experiences - from childhood to coming of age, espionage jobs to private enrichment.
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Nighthawk: Chief Hazel
Summary
Nighthawk: Chief Hazel is a sequel to Nighthawk: African Ice. Hazel Branson replaces her husband, Joseph, as Chief of the Midlake First Nations Indian band. She wins respect for her leadership skills and as a visionary advancing the welfare of the tribe. Meanwhile, Joseph, wanted by the FBI for smuggling and murder, is successfully partnered with a Russian arms dealer trading arms for cash, drugs, and raw diamonds with Jihadists in Africa and Maoists in India. His trading takes him to India, Sri Lanka, Central Africa, and Colombia. Unknown to Joseph, the CIA monitors his movements gleaning significant intelligence. They consider him a valuable but unwitting asset. Hazel takes over the family smuggling operation in the Pacific Northwest but encounters problems. When North Koreans kidnap her daughter to force her to smuggle saboteurs into America, Joseph returns and both the FBI and CIA get involved to thwart the North Korean plot. She kills again taking revenge on the Koreans.
©2015 Glen Witter (P)2019 Glen Witter
NightHawk Crossing
Summary
The story centers on people, drugs, and weapons smuggling and the ruthlessness of a well-entrenched criminal organization. The smugglers are mainly Native American Indians and motorcycle gang members led by a chieftain with a Navy SEAL background. Although the smuggling is within the aegis of the Border Patrol and various ICE sub-agencies, the FBI steps in when two Border Patrol agents are killed by smugglers. The pursuit of the killers not only uncovers drug and gun distribution rigs in America but also unveils a major plot to supply a secret weapon to the Taliban and Al Qaida and subplots of the State Department, Canadian spy agencies, NATO, and the CIA. The story transports the listener from the Okanagan Canada-USA border region to England, Kyrgyzstan, and the Maldives. Action scenes include: murder of two Border Patrol Special Agents; ambush and murder of Korean human trafficking gang members; a winter ambush and destruction of two FBI helicopters while attempting to intercept a smuggling operation; a gun battle between smuggler and FBI helicopters; and a Navy SEAL underwater approach assault on an armory and meth lab on a remote island in the Maldives. The story and the persona are complete fiction but ideas have been gleaned and exaggerated from some “life experiences and characterizations” and events. For example, trans-border drug smuggling by helicopter in the Okanagan is well known and some aircraft have been confiscated. In another example, the Taliban and Al Qaida used a resort in the Maldives for conferences when your author was working in the Maldives. Some towns have been fictionalized but other well-known landmarks are retained. The Chieftain is portrayed as a sociopathic “anti-hero” - well respected in his environmental activities and leadership roles with no remorse for killing adversaries. He is not “killed off” in the story - although much of his well-ordered world is lost - as your author has at least three more episodes in mind.
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