Hawkins, Frank N.: - Frank Hawkins was a clandestine intelligence agent during the Cold War before becoming a foreign and war correspondent for The Associated Press. In the 1980's, he was a senior officer at Knight-Ridder, then one of the world's largest newspaper companies. Hawkins also had a stint as president of a small Hong Kong conglomerate before successfully starting his own consulting companies while living in the Florida Keys. He is the author of the highly rated "The Zurich Printout" and co-author of "$ea Weed," which he wrote together with his daughter Liv. He and his wife Inge live near their other daughter adjacent to the Everglades in a space shared with an alligator they call Fred.