Editing E. Howard Hunt (section)

==Literary Career and Later Life==
Hunt was a prolific writer, publishing over 80 novels under pseudonyms like John Baxter, Gordon Davis, Robert Dietrich, and David St. John. His early works, such as East of Farewell (1942) and Limit of Darkness (1944), drew on wartime experiences, while later spy thrillers like Bimini Run (1949) reflected his CIA background. Post-Watergate, novels like The Berlin Ending (1973) and The Hargrave Deception (1980) capitalized on his notoriety, though sales were modest. His memoirs, Undercover and American Spy, provided self-serving accounts of his CIA and Watergate roles, often disputed by historians.

After prison, Hunt struggled financially, relying on book royalties and a small CIA pension. He remarried in 1977 to Laura Elizabeth Martin, a schoolteacher, and had two children, David and Hollie. Living in Miami, he faced health issues, including cancer and a stroke, and died on January 23, 2007, at age 88 in a Miami hospital from pneumonia. His son, Saint John Hunt, later publicized claims that Hunt confessed to peripheral involvement in a Kennedy assassination plot, detailed in Bond of Secrecy (2012), though these remain unverified and widely disputed.