Strong Wine Red As Blood

by Robert Daley

Overview

In search of prestige as well as profits, a rapacious American conglomerate sends one of its rising stars, a 34 year old corporate raider, to Bordeaux to find, buy and run a “suitable” chateau. It doesn’t matter which one, as long as it’s famous, and it doesn’t matter who he drives out or hurts. But he comes up against traditions he doesn’t understand, is thwarted by the weather, by a major wine fraud, and by the chateau owner’s strong willed daughter.

“Rich and full bodied novel…tells us everything about wine from the grape up”
William Cole--Saturday Review

A captivating, thoroughly enjoyable novel…Daley has captured the atmosphere of tradition and cob-webbed wine cellars and mixed it with the specter of fraud, and of wine made not from grapes but from ox-blood and rat poison
Bill Brashler--Chicago Sun-Times
“Irresistable topical entertainment” ---George Harmon, Chicago Daily News

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016128931
Publisher:	Riviera Productions Ltd.
Publication date:	12/09/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	370 KB

About the Author

New York Times best selling author Robert Daley has written 29 books, seventeen of them novels, many of which were filmed, and twelve non fiction books including Prince of the City, Portraits of France, and the newly published memoir "Writing on the Edge – The Ups and Downs of a Freelance Career."
His first job was with the New York Football Giants, for whom he worked six seasons, also writing stories and articles on the side. Later he wrote a novel based on that team and those seasons called "Only a Game, which, in 2002, Sports Illustrated called "one of the top sports books of all time." There followed by six years as a New York Times correspondent in Europe, covering stories in eighteen countries. In 1971-72 he served as an NYPD deputy police commissioner, an experience that resulted later in a number of books, fiction and non-fiction both. His books have been translated into fourteen languages. Many were book club selections both at home and abroad. Six have been filmed. His articles and stories have appeared in Esquire, The Readers Digest, Vogue, Playboy, New York, The New York Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Life, The Saturday Evening Post and most other major American magazines. He and his French born wife have three daughters and five grand children. They have homes in suburban New York and in Nice, France. See his website at robertdaleyauthor.com

Editorial Reviews

“A book that has both body and bouquet”

N.Y. Times Book Review. - Martin Levin

“Rich and full bodied novel…tells us everything about wine from the grape up”

Saturday Review - William Cole-- Cole

A captivating, thoroughly enjoyable novel…Daley has captured the atmosphere of tradition and cob-webbed wine cellars and mixed it with the specter of fraud, and of wine made not from grapes but from ox-blood and rat poison

Chicago Sun-Times - Bill Brashler

“Irresistable topical entertainment”

Chicago Daily News - George Harmon