The Devil On Chardonnay (Boyd Chailland)

by Ed Baldwin

A sailing adventure! Capt. Boyd Chailland goes undercover to sail, fly, fight and solve a mystery that mixes jihad, the diamond business, crooked bankers and new discoveries in vaccine technology. Someone has spent millions to make a vaccine for Ebola, the world’s deadliest virus; and has kept it a secret. Why? Strategic Command’s Counter Proliferation Task Force assumes the worst and re-calls Chailland, their “go to” guy for “black ops, off the books,” to find out. Leading a team of quirky misfits, Boyd struggles to get ahead of the trail of deceit and death that leads to Chardonnay, a century old sailing yacht owned by notorious European merchant banker Michelle Meilland, and a trans-Atlantic crossing in hurricane season. The kick ass climax in the Azores will leave the reader breathless, but it’s not over until it’s over. Villains and heroes abound in this story; all are well intentioned, all are flawed. But there is only one Devil on Chardonnay.

Ed was a small town family doctor and Air Force Reservist until 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.

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. Ed considers himself a Southern writer, and his genre Southern Adventure Fiction.

“The Devil on Chardonnay” is Ed’s third book and it is scheduled for release in late Spring 2013. Capt. Boyd Chailland, now a series character, returns to battle the forces of evil as a sinister new sickness erupts from the Congo basin.

Ed and wife Becky are planning a trip to Central Asia to gather 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.

For more information, visit Ed’s website at http://www.edbaldwin.com/.