Dead Man's Hand

By Pati Nagle

Only one will go away the ultimate table...alive.

Wild invoice Hickok awakens to the texture of flesh crawling onto his bones. Alive back, within the graveyard in Deadwood on a chilly October evening, he has an impossible to resist compulsion to visit Atlantic urban. There, within the mysterious and magical Black Queen on line casino, he joins a rogue’s gallery of resurrected scoundrels, all gamblers who have been murdered like himself.

Will the daddy of geared up crime revert to his undesirable behavior and try and take over the Queen? Will Wild invoice ultimately discover if these aces and eights are winners? 5 murdered males take a seat to a poker match for the top attainable stakes: the best to stick alive.

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