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The Devil On Chardonnay (Boyd Chailland)
by Ed Baldwin
The second thriller in the Boyd Chailland series.
Boyd Chailland evolved after his adventure in The Other Pilot. He took a beating in that tale, and he’s wary. Yet, he needs action; more action than just flying high performance fighters and training to be in the first wave in the next war. When General Ferguson shows up at Boyd’s wing commander’s office with a Top Secret assignment, he takes it without asking what it is. It’s an international thrill ride of bad actors and close calls.
Some people died on an isolated island in the Indian Ocean after developing a secret vaccine for the world’s most deadly virus; Ebola. Boyd is the team leader to find out who and why. What a team it is; Colonel Joe Smith, shy army pathologist and world expert on Ebola, Raybon Clive and Davann Goodman, disabled vets flying smuggled booze into Muslim Mombasa in an old seaplane, Pamela Prescott, lawyer and FBI agent with a drinking problem, and MacDonnald Wilde, paroled felon and con man.
The trail of death, betrayal, and bad intentions leads from jihadists in Africa to diamond brokers in Europe, to bankers in South Carolina, and finally to the century old sailing yacht Chardonnay and her owner, the notorious European merchant banker Michelle Meilland. Supported by Strategic Command’s Proliferation Security Initiative command center at Ft. Belvoir in suburban Washington, DC, Boyd is backed up by the authority and resources of the entire U.S. government, yet that’s not enough and when the chips are down, it’s just Boyd Chailland. The plot accelerates across the Atlantic in hurricane season as the forces of evil stay one jump ahead of America’s slow moving response to an action packed climax in the Azores.
This story has many heroes and villains; all well meaning, all flawed. But, there’s only one devil on Chardonnay.
Ed Baldwin writes adventure stories. He has lived in every southern state except Mississippi, and he spent the night in jail there once. That was the origin of his first novel, “Bookman,” which is about a door to door salesman traveling the Mid-South during the turbulent 1960’s.
Ed was a small town family doctor and flight surgeon in the Colorado Air National Guard when he was recalled to active duty for the first Persian Gulf War in 1991. Already a published author, he spent the next 19 years seeking assignments and experiences he could use to write adventure fiction. By the time he retired in 2009 Ed had served air crew duty over every continent except Antarctica and in nearly every Air Force aircraft. His assignments included the Pentagon, Space Command, Strategic Command, and the Air Force Flight Test Center, and his security clearance had letters after Top Secret.
Ed’s critically acclaimed second novel, “The Other Pilot” was published by Brasfield Books in 2012. It’s a political action thriller with a military aviation background. “The Devil on Chardonnay,” released in 2013 brings back Capt. Boyd Chailland as Strategic Command’s Counter Proliferation Task Force undercover operator.
Ed will be traveling in Central Asia to gather additional material for the third novel in the Boyd Chailland series, “The Mingrelian.” Armenia and the Republic of Georgia are the exotic locations for this scariest of all the Chailland stories. Watch for it in early 2014.
