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About
John Hoon-nah Hetaw Becker was born to the son of a Red Lodge Montana rancher and an unwed Shoshone-Arapaho mother on Wyoming's Wind River reservation. From age four to eight raised by his stepmother in Iwakuni Japan. Caught between three very different worlds he never fit in. A one-time active-duty Marine and former soldier of fortune. Now self-exiled in Saipan making a precarious living spearfishing the western Pacific's deep waters. When his best friend's widow disappears in Mexico. He learns she had made the perilous journey to rescue her late husband's nineteen-year-old niece, held by narcotics traffickers. Seeking redemption he travels to the dangerous Mexican state of Sinaloa. An alliance is formed with a young municipal police chief and her seventy-two-year-old deputy in a small pueblo that is terrorized by both the cartel and a serial killer. A Wyoming native who has lived in Japan, Puerto Rico, Saipan, the Virgin Islands, Chicago, and Hawaii. He is retired now but has done a lot of side jobs. Roughneck on a drilling rig after high school in the mid-1970s. Open water scuba instructor, and translator. He learned to fly at 17 in 1974, has been a professional pilot for most of his life, and was fortunate enough to fly all five series of Boeing 747s as Captain, working with outstanding people throughout his career. Married since March of 1982 to a wonderful woman with two great sons and a fantastic grandson.