The patient has not regained consciousness. The familiar refrain of “The Navy Hymn” seemed to lull him back into unconsciousness: I’m not just blind, but I’m paralyzed as well, he thought. Not since Vietnam had he experienced such terror. The catapult rumbled overhead, launching men in flying machines and dulling their voices. This smell had also pervaded the ready room, as he and his fellow aviators paced, played Ace Deuce, and tried not to think of the life-threatening missions that were awaiting them. The same smell had wafted under his flight helmet as his A-7 Corsair approached the aircraft carrier on a black night with decks pitching fifteen feet and the ramp rising out of the sea like a huge black monster that was hungry for its next victim. His body stiffened as he was transported back in time. Yes, it is the distinctive smell of fear, but where is it coming from, he thought as he searched for an answer. What is that smell? He had smelled it before. Brain is commanding me to move! Move! However, nothing is happening! The tapping is getting louder! Nothing happening. Oh God, I am blind, he thought! Have to move. Gentle, rhythmic whirring tones of tapping that start and stop. Will John and Chance discover the truth before it’s too late? And what exactly is Ace Deuce, Ltd.? There’s only one way to find out…Īnd here, for your reading pleasure, is our free excerpt: His reunion with Chance only further confuses him as she reveals a phone call from the day after Josh disappeared that indicated a threat to national security. While under the watchful eye of the French ambassador, John begins experiencing painful flashbacks when he glimpses a sign reading “Ace Deuce, Ltd.” in a uranium mine.Īs word spreads of the mysterious amnesiac, Chance Bradford, chief counsel of the world’s largest defense contractor, begins to suspect that he may in fact be her missing twin brother-and CEO of the company-Josh Bradford. A suspenseful blend of mystery and intrigue, this complex thriller pits a group of truth seekers against authorities ravaged by greed and revenge.Īfter stumbling across a comatose man in the middle of the road, the French ambassador to Niger takes the man, whom he begins to call John, to his own estate to recover upon his release from the hospital.

I am alive, John thought as he inhaled deeply as if to speed the process.Unravel the mystery in Freida Fail’s heart-pounding debut, Ace Deuce.

The sights, sounds, and smells began to awaken John’s senses, long subdued by hospital confinement.

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Ace Deuce by Freida Goodman Fail