Brooks  Birdwell Yeager

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Brooks Yeager Award Winning Author

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Praise for Jaguar's Claw

“A vivid tour de force. Taz Blackwell is a swashbuckling antihero the reader can’t help but like. Be prepared to follow him from one fascinating intrigue to another, and to delight in Yeager’s superb writing along the way.”
Judith MillsAuthor of Blood of the Tiger, Former Director: TRAFFIC wildlife-trade monitoring program in East Asia.
“Indiana Jones meets Greta Thunberg! This is the action-adventure story for the reader who understands that ‘global warming’ may be the single most important problem facing us today. Yeager’s capacity for describing the finest details of his settings, whether on Chincoteague Island, in the forests of Brazil, or the deserts of Northern Mexico, creates a full-blown “movie-in-your-head,” and is it ever fun to watch! [The author’s] rare combination of environmental expertise and political/diplomatic acumen provides the essential grist for a story that’s at the very heart of the fight to protect the earth.”
Stacy RhodesSenior Foreign Serve Officer, U.S. Departmentof State.
“A ripping good adventure tale. [Watch as] our hero takes on Mexican cartels, confronts Washington bureaucrats, and heads to Brazil to fight fires and illegal loggers in the Amazon.”
Bruce BabbittSecretary of the Interior under Bill Clinton, 1993-2001
“A delightful, character-driven novel with a hero we can root for. Taz Blackwell is wise and knowing with an unforgettable inner voice and a humor that is wickedly accurate. The writing is flawless. This novel is to be read slowly—for the pleasure of savoring each page.”
Robert J. MrazekAward-winning author of the Jake Cantrell mysteries
“A vivid tour de force. Taz Blackwell is a swashbuckling antihero the reader can’t help but like. Be prepared to follow him from one fascinating intrigue to another, and to delight in Yeager’s superb writing along the way.”
Judith MillsAuthor of Blood of the Tiger, Former Director: TRAFFIC wildlife-trade monitoring program in East Asia.
“Indiana Jones meets Greta Thunberg! This is the action-adventure story for the reader who understands that ‘global warming’ may be the single most important problem facing us today. Yeager’s capacity for describing the finest details of his settings, whether on Chincoteague Island, in the forests of Brazil, or the deserts of Northern Mexico, creates a full-blown “movie-in-your-head,” and is it ever fun to watch! [The author’s] rare combination of environmental expertise and political/diplomatic acumen provides the essential grist for a story that’s at the very heart of the fight to protect the earth.”
Stacy RhodesSenior Foreign Serve Officer, U.S. Departmentof State.

About Chilly Winds

Brooks Yeager’s – First novel, Chilly Winds, won the American ¬ Fiction award for best adventure novel in 2021. Before trying his hand at ¬fiction, Brooks campaigned for wildlife and wilderness, negotiated global environmental agreements at the State Department, and consulted on environmental issues with the World Bank and the Arctic Council. His conservation career took him all over the world, from Brazil and Mexico to South Africa and the Russian Far East. These days Brooks and his wife Cindy Shogan enjoy life on the island of Chincoteague, on the Atlantic coast of Virginia. When he’s not writing, he likes to play guitar, watch birds, read philosophy and obscure books of history, and listen to all kinds of music.

2021 American Fiction Award Winner in Adventure: General

Taz Blackwell, former environmental negotiator and now a trouble-seeking drinker and romantic charmer, tries to find a new life and love against a backdrop of espionage, corporate plunderers, and devious diplomats.

Escaping a failed marriage, Taz moves to the island of Chincoteague on Virginia’s Atlantic Coast, where he explores friendships with a cast of small-town misfits and romance with a beautiful but wary divorcee. Meanwhile, he fights a corporate land grab on the shore and a shady billion-dollar mining play in the international Arctic.

Why is a Chinese mining conglomerate stealing the land underneath a traditional black community on Virginia’s Eastern Shore? Why is the Russian ambassador to Iceland trying to open southern Greenland to mining? Why does Taz interest the ambassador’s beautiful mistress? The answers are in Chilly Winds, a tour de force that will appeal to mystery lovers, adventure addicts, and espionage fans everywhere.
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Alan & Janes Chilly Winds Playlist (on Spotify)

Occasional and Random Musings from Chincoteague

Soul of Chilly Winds

Chilly Winds readers know how important music is to the book, and to Taz Blackwell, the book’s principal character. Taz is a musician himself, and musical scenes and settings are important markers in his life and in his community.

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Brooks Yeager June 21, 2021

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Brooks Yeager February 3, 2021