Austin S. Camacho is the author of the Hannibal Jones Mystery Series and the Stark and O’Brien adventure series. His short stories have been featured in four anthologies from Wolfmont Press, including Dying in a Winter Wonderland – an Independent Mystery Booksellers Association Top Ten Bestseller for 2008 - and he is featured in the Edgar nominated African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey.
He is also a communications specialist for the Department of Defense. America’s military people know him because for more than a decade his radio and television news reports were transmitted to them daily on the American Forces Network.
Camacho was born in New York City but grew up in Saratoga Springs, New York. He majored in psychology at Union College in Schenectady, New York. After three years, he enlisted in the Army as a weapons repairman but soon moved on to being a broadcast journalist.
During his years as a soldier, Camacho lived in Missouri, California, Maryland, Georgia and Belgium. He also spent a couple of intense weeks in Israel during Desert Storm, covering the action with the Patriot missile crews and capturing scud showers on video tape. In his spare time, he began writing adventure and mystery stories 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 DoD and writes articles for military newspapers and magazines. Camacho is a past president of the Maryland Writers Association, past Vice President of the Virginia Writers Club, and is an active member of Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers and Sisters in Crime.
The Camacho family has settled in Upper Marlboro, MD with Princess the Wonder Cat and their dog, The Mighty Mocha.
Also by Austin S. Camacho - The Hannibal Jones Mysteries
The Troubleshooter
A Washington attorney buys an apartment building in the heart of the city, but then finds it occupied by drug dealers. 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 facing a local crime boss and his mob-connected father.
Blood and Bone
An eighteen-year-old boy lies dying of leukemia. Kyle’s only hope is a bone marrow transplant, but no one in his family can supply it. His last chance lies in finding his father, who disappeared before Kyle was born. His family turns to a troubleshooter named Hannibal Jones. His search for the missing man leads Hannibal down a twisting path of deception, conspiracy, greed and murder.
Collateral Damage
Bea Collins is certain her fiancé 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 the real killer Hannibal travels to Germany, Vegas and through Dean’s past, which includes the murder of Dean’s father.
Damaged Goods
The death of Anita Cooper’s father crushed her dreams. Then a hard man named Rod Mantooth stole her innocence and her father’s legacy. Hope was lost until she encountered Hannibal Jones. 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.
Other Stark and O’Brien Adventures from Austin S. Camacho
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’Brian to her native Ireland to defend her uncle’s town from Ian O’Ryan, an IRA terrorist. The battle with O’Ryan leads them to a sniper mission on the Irish coast, a high speed motorcycle race in Belgium, and a final confrontation off the coast of France where Morgan could die by slow torture if Felicity doesn’t find him in time.
The Piranha Assignment
The Piranha is a stealth submarine that will give the U.S. total command of the seas. Built in secrecy in Panama, the Piranha is ready for testing, but the CIA suspects sabotage in the project and asks for help from Morgan Stark and Felicity O’Brien. They join the Piranha security team and learn that both the project and its leader are not what they appear to be.
The Ice Woman Assignment
Morgan Stark & Felicity O Brien battle Anaconda, female leader of a Colombian drug cartel with a secret weapon: psychic slaves who can predict their every move. Anaconda is importing a new drug called ice. Stark & O Brien must trace the source of the new drug before it becomes too popular to stop, and then go to Colombia to face the killers on their own turf.