During his years as a soldier, Austin lived in Missouri, California, Maryland, Georgia and Belgium. While enlisted he finished his Bachelor’s Degree at night and started his Master’s, and rose to the rank of Sergeant First Class. In his spare time, he began writing adventure and mystery novels set in some of the exotic places he’d visited.
After leaving the Army he continued to write military news for the Defense Department as a civilian. Today he handles media relations for a division of the DoD. He has settled in Maryland with his family, including Princess the wonder cat.
Austin is a voracious reader of just about any kind of nonfiction, plus mysteries, adventures and thrillers. When he isn’t working or reading, he’s writing.
Keep up with all of Austin S. Camacho’s latest accomplishments at www.ascamacho.com
Other Hannibal Jones Mysteries By Austin S. Camacho
The Troubleshooter
A Washington attorney buys an apartment building in the heart of the city, but then finds the building occupied by drug dealers are unable to empty the building for use by paying residents. No one seems willing or able to take on this challenge until the lawyer meets Hannibal Jones. He calls himself a troubleshooter, but he finds more trouble than he expected finds himself facing off against a local crime boss and his powerful, mob-connected father.
Collateral Damage
Bea Collins is certain her fiancée wouldn’t just leave without telling her. Troubleshooter Hannibal Jones is skeptical until the missing fiancée turns up dazed, confused and holding a knife over a dead body. To find this killer Hannibal will travel to Germany, Vegas and through Dean’s past, which includes the murder of Dean’s father, his first childhood crush and brings Hannibal face to face with Dean’s convicted mother.
Damaged Goods
The death of Anita Cooper’s father crushed her dreams of a better life. Then a hard man named Rod Mantooth stole her innocence and her father’s legacy, a secret that could have rebuilt her life was lost until she encountered another hard man - the professional troubleshooter named Hannibal Jones. Like a rolling mass of icy fury, Hannibal follows a trail of corrupted human debris leading to Rod Mantooth and a final showdown in the icy waters of the Atlantic.
Russian Roulette
Hannibal Jones is forced to take a case for a Russian assassin. He must investigate Gana, who has stolen Viktoriya, the woman his new client loves. Evidence connects Gana to the apparent suicide of Viktoriya’s father. Then more deaths follow, closing in on Viktoriya. To save the Russian beauty, Hannibal must unravel a complex tangle of clues and survive a dramatic shootout side-by-side with his murderous client.
Also available by Austin S. Camacho The Stark and O’Brien Adventures
The Payback Assignment
While fighting for their lives, mercenary soldier Morgan Stark and jewel thief Felicity O’Brien learn they share a psychic link that warns them of danger. They then combine their skills to get revenge on the man who double-crossed them both and left them to die in South America.
The Orion Assignment
Ex-mercenary Morgan Stark follows retired jewel thief Felicity O’Brien to her native Ireland to defend her uncle’s Catholic parish from Ian O’Ryan, and IRA terrorist. Trying to separate patriotic mercenaries from heartless terrorists leads them to a sniper mission on the rocky Irish coast, a deadly high speed motorcycle race in Belgium, and a final confrontation on an island off the coast of France where Morgan could die by slow torture if Felicity doesn’t find him in time.
The Piranha Assignment
The CIA asks security specialists Stark & O’Brien to go undercover to investigate The Piranha Project - construction of a stealth submarine that will give the U.S. total command of the seas. The project is run in Panama by eccentric genius Francisco Bastidas, but may have been infiltrated by terrorists. If stark and O’Brien can’t stop them, America’s new super weapon could threaten the world with nuclear destruction.
The Ice Woman Assignment
Federal agencies ask security specialists Morgan Stark and Felicity O’Brien to use their underworld connections to help stop the import of a new drug called Ice. That ignites a war with The Escorpionistas, a Columbian cartel led by a female mystic known as Anaconda. The action moves from California to Texas to a climactic battle in Columbia pitting our heroes’ psychic link against natives who can see the future.
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