El Pistolero: A Chelmin and Spaulding Mystery

by Marvin J. Wolf

Overview

The partners dive into a 50year-old Vietnam War mystery: What happened to Lt. Felipe Aznar, a West Pointer and an infantry officer who disappeared while on emergency leave from Vietnam and is listed as a deserter? When someone using his name books a roundtrip flight from Los Angeles to Houston, the CID is alerted. The FBI says that Aznar is one name used by a suspected killer-for-hire who has murdered at least sixty men going back thirty years. Against the backdrop of still mysterious events that occurred during the Vietnam War, Chelmin and Spaulding begin their search in Southern California and run into a hornet's nest. Only after surviving multiple attempts to shoot them, abduct them, and blow up their hotel.do they learn that Lt. Aznar is long dead and the man they seek may have killed him and stolen his identity.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940166021250
Publisher:	Marvin J. Wolf
Publication date:	02/15/2023
Series:	Chelmin and Spaulding CID Mysteries
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	402 KB

About the Author

I grew up on Chicago's South Side, the oldest boy in a large, working-class family. We moved to Los Angeles when I was 16 and my father struggled to support the family. To help out I worked as a dishwasher to get through high school, then joined the Army at age 17. I served as an infantryman, a Ranger School instructor, a Drill Instructor, and left with an honorable discharge at age 20. I sold encyclopedias door-to-door, then sold cameras, then re-upped and went to Vietnam as a combat photographer. I was one of sixty enlisted men serving in Vietnam to receive a direct appointment to second lieutenant of infantry. I served eight more years on active duty in a variety of positions, including company commander. I left active duty in 1974. I worked in corporate communications for a few years, then went out on my own as a freelance photographer and writer. I've been very lucky to do well enough at this to support myself and my family. I now have published thirteen nonfiction books, had a couple of screenplays produced, and penned more magazine pieces than I can count. I turned to fiction in 2010. I'm divorced and live with my adult daughter and our two spoiled Chihuahuas in an urban forest in Asheville, NC.