F.X. Regan

Fresh off the drama several months ago that included a shootout at Rosslyn Station, the last Metro stop in Virginia, and a conflagration at the Federal Courthouse in Washington, D.C., Fairfax County Detective Sergeant Kiki Diaz is leaving an interview in McLean....

According to Merriam Webster, the Latin word for root is RADIX. It’s often used to describe origin, or beginning, usually in mathematics, which makes it the perfect title for this book CJ Hawk’s origin story.

Inspired by a tragically true story, homicide Detective Sergeant Kiki Diaz gets the call early one morning to respond to the McLean District Sub Station where two of her fellow Fairfax County Police officers have been shot and killed in the lobby by a gunman who fled.

Jack can't stay out of trouble with the chief of detectives back home, mostly due to his drinking, and his cockups get him sent to the Nevada desert as punishment. But it's not the murders that bother Black Jack, so much as the evidence he finds about the events from Roswell in 1947....

CJ Hawk is a former Alexandria, Virginia police officer who joins the FBI. Five years into his new career he is "Removed From the Rolls of the FBI" for his role in a bank robbery take down that went tragically wrong.

After a successful undercover operation ensnared an MS-13 gang leader in a high-profile human trafficking investigation, the case is picked up by the feds, and Fairfax County Police Detective Sergeant Kiki Diaz prepares for a complex federal trial in Washington, D.C.

DEPARTMENT ECHO finds Hawk as the first police officer on the scene in 1984 when Dr. David Richards is assassinated answering the door to his Old Town Alexandria, Virginia townhouse late at night.

Zack Wise is a whip smart information technology specialist at the venerable Washington, D. C. lobbying firm Van Ness – Penn Consulting. Their biggest client – the Republican National Committee.

Someone has murdered three prominent residents of Old Town Alexandria, Virginia including the wife of the city's sheriff. When the trail goes cold, the sheriff's son hires dismissed FBI agent, now private investigator CJ Hawk, to look into the murder with fresh eyes.