Retired army colonel Huxton "Huck" Price solved his first case in the thriller A Price for a Penny. He's back in a suspenseful mystery about a missing aviator, a beautiful woman, and a drug kingpin intent on saving his brother from a life behind bars.
Huck and his partner, retired CIA agent Cedric Smart, have been hired by Jane Reynolds to find her missing fiancé, US Army aviator Major W. T. Crook. Crook told Jane he was flying to San Antonio, Texas, but then he disappeared with a multimillion-dollar plane and $350,000 in cash. Jane is desperate to find him, but the army seems indifferent to her plight.
Huck and Cedric take the case and follow a trail of clues that puts them in the sights of a powerful drug cartel. Where did Crook disappear to? And how is he tied to the cartel? Huck vows to uncover the truth.
The head of the cartel, Diego Emmanuel Rafael, is busy securing the release of his brother from a supermax prison. When Huck's investigation starts to derail Diego's plans, Huck and Cedric are in for the fight of their lives.
About the Author: W. Earl Daniels entered the US Army as a private and rose to the rank of colonel. He uses his army experience as background for his protagonist, Huxton "Huck" Price. Price debuted in A Price for a Penny and tackles his toughest adventure yet in A Price for a Major Crook.
Daniels served in Vietnam and Germany before working with Army Intelligence in Virginia and with the Army Special Operations Forces Command at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
When Daniels worked at the Pentagon, he was part of the first team created by the Secretary of the Army to provide oversight to ongoing covert operations. Daniels's work has taken him to Panama, Japan, and South Korea.
Daniels lives with his wife on their ranch in the North Carolina foothills. He has three children and five grandchildren.
