THE MIDNIGHT GUARDIAN
Creator: John C. Bruening
Characters
Jack Hunter (Asst. D.A.)
Frank “Buzz” Hunter (Jack’s
cousin)
Ed Gallagher (D.A.)
Betty Carlyle (D.A.
secretary)
Sam Tagert (Chief of Police)
Lt. Mike Dugan (Chief of
Detectives)
Bart Maxwell (Tribune
Reporter)
Dan “Doc” Kendall
(Pharmacist)
Stephen Bentley (Mayor)
Hank Cremshaw (Fire Chief)
Nicholas Diamond (Mob Boss)
Vinnie Marshall (Nicky’s
childhood friend)
Luke Simone (Mob lieutenant)
Johnny Kawalski (Mob driver
and gunman)
Dominic LoCastro (Mob Lawyer)
Anthony Reynolds (Judge – in
pocket of the mob)
Oliver Pruett (Sparks –
explosive expert)
It’s 1936, and after more than a decade, Nicky Diamond is out
of prison and back in Union City. He had tried to take over the town during
Prohibition, but a police officer had stopped his men before they killed him.
Now that police officer’s son, Jack Hunter, is the Assistant D.A., and he wants
to put a stop to the crime lord for good. The police have proven ineffective
against the mob boss, and the D.A.’s office needs proof to put Diamond back
behind bars.
Jack and his cousin, Buzz Hunter have always been good at
making things and working with equipment, and Buzz has invented a battery
operated mask with goggles that gives the wearer heightened abilities, such as
seeing in the dark, able to anticipate movements, and the ability to move
faster than normal, and react with lightning reflexes. Jack tries them on one
night and is impressed. Now maybe he can do something the police can’t do, like
get evidence.
Wearing the headset with goggles and a leather jacket, Jack
Hunter becomes the Midnight Guardian. He rides a Henderson motorcycle he has
engineered for high speed.
Oliver Pruett is working with the police to identify the
explosives used by Nicky Diamond, while really working for the Mob Boss as
Sparks. However, the supposed duel role does not escape the reader.
So far there has only been one novel published.
“Hour
of Darkness” (Flinch Books) 2016
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