Welcome to Christopher Baldwin Books!
Christopher S. Baldwin is a versatile fiction author known for his gripping special agent thrillers filled with espionage and suspense, as well as a wide range of fictional themes.
Living in Erie, Pennsylvania, Mr. Baldwin had a special interest in authoring a historical non-fiction book regarding the War of 1812 and Erie's involvement in the Battle of Lake Erie.
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FICTION:
Deceptions
An Agent Jack Slade Novel
Super-agent Jack Slade was the unanimous, collective choice of United States intelligence agencies to bring Russian oligarch, Ivan Anton, back to Russia for justice. Anton stood accused of embezzling a billion dollars in Russian assets. Embarrassed, Russia offered the world a bounty of thirty-million dollars for his live return.
The United States offered its help, hoping to build goodwill with Russia; a member of the United Nations Security Council.
Ivan proves an elusive target who uses his wealth to thwart capture and seek revenge on Jack Slade. Jack had gotten the better of him on a previous mission.
Jack is forced to find his way through a maze of double agents and situations where ‘truth’ is hard to discern.
This story is filled with twists, turns, and surprises that neither Jack Slade or you could have anticipated.
Honey Trap
An Agent Jack Slade Novel
Ex-CIA Agent, Jack Slade, was in a terrible state of mind. Four family members tragically died in a single year leaving him grief-stricken, depressed, and isolated. His last surviving family member was a naval captain brother-in-law, who was chosen to skipper a new state-of-the-art submarine that was soon to be put to sea. Russia and China were desperate for intelligence on the sub’s new weapons system. Both countries dispatched honeypot espionage agents to get it.
Jack Slade must deal with his personal problems while making himself the espionage agent’s target to save his last family member and the United States.
Deception, intrigue, and romance is all here for your enjoyment.
OPERATION: Global Luxe
An Agent Jack Slade Novel
Former Agent Jack Slade took an early retirement from the FBI after working 12 years in undercover operations. His long desired, fun-filled retirement was cut short when enemy operatives from a previous job started to hunt him. Jack Slade was forced to re-enlist and go undercover once again in order to bring them to justice and save the United States and his family.
His new mission became more complicated when a connected assassin, who was thought to be dead, resurfaced. She appeared to become associated with an international criminal who was dealing in illegal microchips that controlled ICBM missiles.
The assassin was known for her brutal killings, but Jack had wooed her anyway while doing an undercover operation. It resulted in their torrid love affair. The tension between his alias’s love for her and his loyalty to his job had mentally destroyed him. The assassin could identify him and put him in jeopardy.
This is the third book in the Jack Slade Series. Deception and Honey Trap were the previous books.
Bear Trap
An Agent Jack Slade Novel
A beautiful model, a New York City socialite, is horribly murdered in the “Big Apple”. Seasoned Detective, John Woods, is assigned to investigate and solve the murder. Woods soon discovers this is no ordinary one when a CIA-developed nerve agent is found in the toxicology report. Woods notifies Washington’s FBI who reactivates a retired super agent, Jack Slade. Jack gained first-hand expertise in bio-weapons when he worked undercover in the jungles of South America for the CIA.
The case becomes even more complex when Jack discovers that murder and blackmail are all a part of a sick, orchestrated plan by a rogue Russian gang that has infiltrated the United States and has set up their operations near D.C. Their goal is to destroy the entire United States Government.
Deceit, blackmail, and politics combine to add unexpected twists as Jack’s struggles to resolve the case in time to save the very existence of the United States.
Atoll Laka
It was Roger Stewart’s 28th birthday. A year he felt would be no different from his 27th.
Roger was currently unemployed having been let go from his insurance sales job - having no idea for his next one. His five-year relationship with his girlfriend ending about the same time because he didn’t want to give up his single lifestyle.
His caring family gave him a birthday gift of a single’s cruise so he could reset his psyche and love life.
The cruise was out to sea only three days when catastrophe struck. Roger was thrown overboard only to land on a remote uncharted sand atoll. Roger was stranded on an island having no survival skills to rely on.
Roger was forced into a world he was ill prepared for; where the simplest misstep could spell his death.
Roger’s 28th year would be very different from his 27th in ways he couldn’t imagine.
HISTORICAL NON-FICTION
Lt. John Brooks, Jr.
The Battle of Lake Erie
First Lieutenant Marine John Brooks Jr. is a forgotten Hero in the story of the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie.
Brooks graduated from Harvard Medical School and then served as an officer in the US Marines from 1807-1813. He was the third son of Col. John Brooks Sr., a Revolutionary War hero and the two term 11th Governor of Massachusetts.
John Brooks Jr. spent 6 of his military years commanding the Marine Guards onboard the (1807 ) USS Wasp, USS Congress, USS Essex, and USS Constitution and was chosen for a secret mission by President James Madison before serving Oliver Hazard Perry onboard the USS Lawrence in the Battle of Lake Erie.
In the Battle of Lake Erie, his duty was to recruit and train Marines for the entire fleet. He was killed early in the battle by a cannonball that struck him in the thigh/hip that took away his hip joint. Being mortally wounded, he survived for only about 2 hours and died 20 minutes before the battle was won. In that 2 hours of agony, he focused his concerns on Captain Oliver Perry and the rest of the Lawrence crew; not himself.
Although he was a senior officer on the ship and entitled to the surgeon’s care ahead of the crew’s, Brooks refused care. This freed surgeon, Usher Parsons, to attend the heavily wounded 104 man crew consisting of Narragansett Indians, whites and blacks of lesser ranks, volunteers, slaves, and children.
The United States Navy named a 1919 destroyer the USS John Brooks in his honor.
The story of Lt. Brooks has never been written, and I hope you will learn of and appreciate his service to our Country.
Christopher Baldwin Books
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