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Basil Sands - Author/Narrator

MIDNIGHT SUN - an excerpt

featuring Kharzai

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Basil Sands - Stories & More
Feb 16, 2026
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Enjoy the first chapter of my novel Midnight Sun, originally self-published in 2012, then picked up and republished by Permuted Press in 2019.

Here’s the blurb:
They should’ve let him go. They should’ve let him retire in peace. They should’ve left his woman out of it.

Kharzai Ghiassi has served the US Government his entire adult life. The best infiltration agent they’ve ever had. Death is not just his business, death is his life. He’s gone off the CIA’s radar and all they know is that someone is in danger.

When a former soccer star turned Islamic terrorist shows up in Anchorage, Alaska, retired Marine Corps Special Operator Marcus ‘Mojo’ Johnson and his State Trooper wife, Lonnie, team up with the FBI’s Mike and Hilde Farris to put a stop to the threat that hangs over the city like a hammer about to fall. No one is safe. No one can hide in the Land of The Midnight Sun.

Chapter 1

Southwestern Punjab, Pakistan

November 4th

“Ali aga, how long will the meeting be today?” Kharzai fidgeted as he …

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