General Trusten Polk's F-16 explodes on takeoff in Denver. Within hours he's exposed as an impostor, a war hero politician controlled by others. As Captain Boyd Chailland, the pilot member of the accident board uncovers Polk's lonely private life he finds another pilot from Polk's past knows all his secrets and is leaking them to the press. Congressman Roscoe Kelly is tied to bank fraud and other politicians with ties to Polk duck and weave. The press smells blood and government corruption dominates the news cycle. Is The Other Pilot a patriot or a criminal? Where did all that money come from?Boyd rushes to find The Other Pilot, as signs point to a criminal mastermind with a lust for revenge.The spark to set off civil war in America is on a ranch in west Texas. Boyd, his English teacher lover, his flight surgeon pal, a vintage aircraft enthusiast with a restored P-51 Mustang, and a small town sheriff are the nation's last line of defense

The Other Pilot

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Baldwin, Ed

Thrillers & Suspense

Brasfield Books

Selling books door to door in small towns in Mississippi after dark was no easy job in 1965, but Phil Lazar got good at it. His immature redneck bad behavior leads to hilarious hijinks and harsh consequences until that night in the Memphis jail when there was no one else to call but the man he'd been running from all along. The civil rights struggle was in the news that year, but the twist that leads to Phil's redemption tears open stereotypes of black/white interaction to show a much more nuanced cooperative relationship that underpinned commerce and politics in Memphis; then and now. Read about the Mid-South as it was, and is, and could be.

Bookman

Literature & Fiction

Ed Baldwin

United States

Of what stuff are heroes made; who stands when others run? A secret vaccine? The chance to "spread a little sickness" attracts criminals, revolutionaries, and psychopaths; but they're the small players. Something worse broke out of the Congo basin, and Capt. Boyd Chailland, backed up by the full resources of Strategic Command's Counter Proliferation Task Force pursues it to Chardonnay a luxurious sailing yacht crossing the North Atlantic in hurricane season. What is The Devil on Chardonnay? Villains and heroes populate a winding trail of suspense that begins in the Indian Ocean and ends in the Azores. An action packed climax seems to settle the issue, but an unexpected development will leave the reader stunned by the depth of human perfidy.

The Devil on Chardonnay (Boyd Chailland Series)

The 21st Century "Great Game" between Russia, Iran and America plays out beneath the snowcapped Caucasus Mountains in Central Asia as Capt. Boyd Chailland, goes undercover to find "The Mingrelian," America's most important source for Iranian nuclear secrets. Boyd is captivated by the rich Georgian culture and falls for a Circassian beauty. Together they must crash Iran's nuclear coming out party to rescue the one man who can save Persia from itself.

The Mingrelian

What moves our government? A techno-thriller so accurate it may not be fiction at all! Congress acts quickly after a series of security breaches leads to military and diplomatic crisis. Billions are spent in hastily written defense contracts, but embarrassing blunders continue. As alliances and the balance of power shift, Maj. Boyd Chailland goes undercover in the Pentagon to find the mole leaking secrets; but it isn't a mole. In an adventure that sweeps from Africa to the Arctic, Boyd finds a fundamental flaw in our Information Technology infrastructure, and a conspiracy that is milking it for profit and pushing America off our perch as the world's superpower. Then Chailland's family disappears and he must confront his own dark past.

The Fourth Domain (Boyd Chailland)