Book details

  • Genre:fiction
  • Sub-genre:Action & Adventure
  • Language:English
  • Pages:340
  • eBook ISBN:9781667841229
  • Paperback ISBN:9781667841212

Todd's Guardians

By C. Edgar North

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Overview


The story is set in Thailand in the late 1970s. Todd Harris is a genius and one of America's leading scientists in electronic miniaturization and nuclear bomb design. He is considered a national asset - but he has a death wish.
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Description


While Todd's in Thailand, the CIA is tasked with ensuring his security. But their job is not easy as he craves excitement and wants to take chances – he has a death wish. His presence in Thailand comes to the attention of the Pakistan intelligence service and a plot develops to kidnap him in pursuit of nuclear weapon development secrets. The CIA uncovers this plan and uses the unwitting Todd as bait in a scheme to set back Pakistan's bomb development. C. Edgar's North's writings are verisimilitude and inspired by his travels.
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About The Author


Glen Witter, whose pen name is C. Edgar North, has written seven different action, thriller, and espionage novels. His collection of novels include: "Nighthawk: Crossing", "Nighthawk: African Ice", "Nighthawk: Chief Hazel", "Blood, Fire, and Ice", "Nighthawk: The Deacon", "The Art Flogger, and "Todd's Guardians.." North lives in Summerland and, of course, local geography and situations pop up in many of the novels. "Nighthawk Crossing" is the first in a four-part series featuring high-level smuggling. Blood, Fire, and Ice, on the other hand concerns "Big Oil" trying to stifle some Arctic researchers. "The Art Flogger" follows the adventurous life of a fine art auctioneer who tangles with a drug cartel. Todd's Guardians is a spy story based in exotic Thailand in the late 1970's.
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