E. Howard Hunt
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E. Howard Hunt was born in Hamburg, New York, of English and Welsh descent. He attended Nichols School in Buffalo, New York and in 1940 he graduated from Brown University. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy on the destroyer USS Mayo, in the United States Army Air Forces, and then the Office of Strategic Services, which he served in China. During the war, his first novel, East of Farewell (1942), was published. In 1949, he joined the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and in 1950 he was stationed in Mexico City and worked on the plan to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz, the president of Guatemala. He was later stationed in Japan, Uruguay, and then returned to the United States to organize Cuban exiles for the take-over of Cuba after the Bay of Pigs Invasion. He served as the Chief of Covert Action for the CIA's Domestic Operations Division from 1962-1966. He became bitter about President Kennedy's handling of the Fidel Castro regime and retired from the CIA in 1970. In 1971 he joined the President's Special Investigations Unit (alias White House Plumbers). He was directly involved in the Watergate scandal and was indicted on federal charges. His wife, Dorothy, was killed in a United Airlines plane crash in 1972. He eventually spent 33 months in prison on a conspiracy charge. In 1973 his semi-autobiographical novel about the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Give Us This Day, was published. In 1978, a CIA memo linking him to the assassination of President Kennedy was discovered, and he gave a deposition for the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA). He has always denied the connection. He declared bankruptcy in 1995 and lived in Biscayne Park, Florida. Over the course of his writing career, he wrote over 40 novels, primarily spy fiction. His memoir, American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate, and Beyond was published in 2007.
Books
House-dick
A house detective in a Washington D.C. hotel gets entangled in a complex web of lies, burglary, and murder after a mysterious and gorgeous woman checks in.
Undercover
Give Us This Day
Presents the text of the most widely known version of the Lord's prayer, with illustrations and brief commentary on the prayer's origins and different versions.
American spy
A central figure in the Watergate scandal looks back over his life, from his role as a covert agent during World War II and his career with the CIA to his role in the Watergate break-in and its aftermath.
Dragon Teeth
After Mark Brand left the CIA, putting his expertise in Asian affairs to work at the quiet Washington think tank GlobEco, his life should have become less hazardous. Brand even advised his son, Peter, to stay away from government work and make some money in banking. But when Peter disappears in politically festering China, his father begins a desperate search for him. Brand learns that Peter was captured while on an errand for the Agency, witnessing Chinese missiles loaded with poison gas being moved into position for a strike against Taiwan. Satellite photos reveal the missile formation is aimed at the tiny island nation, and as an ally the United States is sworn to protect her. And if this tense situation - code-named Dragon Teeth - between China and Taiwan is revealed, U.S. business will be frightened out of China, shattering an already fragile trade relationship. Assistant Secretary of State Irving Chenow must help the President arrange a covert air strike against the installation deep within the mainland and capture the Brands before they bring their story to light. Now father and son must make their way out of mainland China, avoiding capture by both the Chinese and the CIA, while Stealth fighters move in to destroy the threat.
The Kremlin conspiracy
"Former U.S. Secret Service agent, Marcus Ryker, was trained to protect the president. Now he travels to Russia to stop the Russian president who is feverishly consolidating power, silencing his opposition, and plotting a brazen, lightning-fast military strike that could rupture the NATO alliance and bring Washington and Moscow to the brink of nuclear war"-- September 1999: A series of apartment bombings in Moscow are blamed on Chechen terrorist. Oleg Kreakin, on the Russian president's personal staff, has no idea how the bombings will alter the course of world events. September 2001: Following the events of 9/11, Marcus Ryker enlists in the Marines, eventually joining the Secret Service and working his way up to the Presidential Protection Detail. Now: The President is distracted by tensions in North Korea and Iran, as a new Russian president feverishly consolidates power, silences his opposition, and plots a brazen and lightning-fast military strike that could rupture the NATO alliance and bring Washington and Moscow to the brink of nuclear war. And Kreakin and Ryker will cross paths....