Aces & Eights

Aces & Eights
Author: Loren D. Estleman
Publisher: Forge Books
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2010-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429911751

Dead Man's Hand No one paid any mind to Jack McCall as he unloaded a .44 caliber slug into Wild Bill Hickok's brain at point-blank range. Deadwood's legendary gunslinging marshal was dead, holding a poker hand of aces and eights, a dead man's hand. The question the law wanted to know: was McCall a hired killer or did he kill Hickok to avenge his brother's death? Find out in Loren D. Estleman's Aces & Eights. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Aces and Eights - a Sam Prichard Mystery

Aces and Eights - a Sam Prichard Mystery
Author: David Archer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2017-07-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781973841524

Thirty years ago, Harry Winslow's wife and children died in a tragic house fire while he was out of the country on a mission for Uncle Sam - or did they? Someone has left Harry an envelope containing photos of his wife and children some years after they were supposed to have died.Freshly retired from his years as a Government Agent, Harry turns to Sam Prichard. Sam and Indie managed to track down his family, but the incredible story only gets wilder from there. An old friend of Harry's had staged the deaths of his family, while leading his wife to believe that Harry was the one who had died, and that the KGB was coming for her family. In desperation, she allowed him to take her out of the country and create new identities for herself and her children.Now the truth is out, and Harry and his wife are reunited, but then his old friend is murdered and Harry is the only viable suspect. Will Sam be able to prove his innocence? It's a game of poker - and the chips are human lives.

Aces and Eights Reloaded

Aces and Eights Reloaded
Author: Jolly Blackburn
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781951695088

Simply put, the Aces and Eights Reloaded game is the second edition of the world's best-selling, state-of-the-art, game-of-the-year Wild West role playing game. This new edition will be leathered (if you choose Gunslinger! or higher reward level) and gorgeous, just like the first edition. Aces & Eights is a game that has the fastest, yet most precise combat system while still focusing more on roleplaying opportunities and character development than any other game. There are no levels and dozens of professions from which players can choose and even change as opportunity presents itself. Want to be a prospector because gold's been found, sure thing. The mine's played out before you stake a claim, you can turn to selling hardware or become a bandito or gunslinger. That doesn't work, maybe a lawman or gambler? At each stop you can further develop skills and abilities used while following those professions. The book is 384 pages and comes with 2 silhouettes, Standard Shot clock and Shotgun Shot Clock.

Aces and Eights

Aces and Eights
Author: Ralph Estes
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2021-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1493049631

Our images of the big names and places of the Old West often come from the tales of gunfights and violence that were sensationalized by dime novels and yellow journalism in the 19th century and the myths that came from those stories live on today. But in reality many of these fabled characters of the Wild West were gamblers first and gunfighters second— more invested in poker than in the momentary fury of the shootout. Aces and Eights tells story of the role of poker in the lives of these legends, and offers a portrait of the places where they lived and frequently died. This book offers both the “facts” of these lives and the true tales of the game and the gamblers—and the entertaining “tall tales” that have survived to this day.

Aces & Eights

Aces & Eights
Author: Wm. E. Bobb
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2021-06-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1662433182

Jake Leggs is in Phoenix when he answers a misdirected text message. Before he knows it, his curious nature gets him knee deep in a murder-for-hire scheme. A woman wants to kill her husband. When he finds out why, he tends to agree with her. It gets worse. Not only is the husband a gun runner, he’s tied in with the Mexican drug cartels, among others. He’s not your run-of-the-mill bad boy. Another problem was that Jake’s girlfriend/lawyer was going to have issues about his participation in this matter. When the rich, aggrieved potential client presented him with an obscene amount of money, he overlooked his reservations and took the case. He had no intention of killing the guy. Maybe he could just neutralize him. Jake had no idea how many other people wanted to do more than just neutralize anybody who had anything to do with this deal, especially powerful government entities on both sides of the border.

Jack of Hearts

Jack of Hearts
Author: Sandra Owens
Publisher: Aces & Eights
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781503941380

Alex Gentry doesn't scare easily. Working as an undercover FBI agent in the biker bar he and his brothers co-own, he hangs with deadly criminals in order to gather information. Danger is just part of the family business. But one thing has him terrified: his attraction to Madison Parker. Madison is the cousin of Ramon Alonzo, son and second in command to a notorious drug lord Alex is trying to bust. Alex has befriended Ramon as part of his cover, and Madison has unknowingly become his informant. Falling for her could risk this case--and both their lives. All Madison wants is to get her new bookstore business off the ground, and for her creepy cousin Ramon--to whom she's unfortunately indebted--to leave her alone. If she could only stop fantasizing about his mysterious new friend, Alex... As the Alonzo cartel investigation heats up, so does their relationship. But will the secrets they're keeping tear them apart--or get them both killed?

Reasoning About Knowledge

Reasoning About Knowledge
Author: Ronald Fagin
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2004-01-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780262562003

Reasoning about knowledge—particularly the knowledge of agents who reason about the world and each other's knowledge—was once the exclusive province of philosophers and puzzle solvers. More recently, this type of reasoning has been shown to play a key role in a surprising number of contexts, from understanding conversations to the analysis of distributed computer algorithms. Reasoning About Knowledge is the first book to provide a general discussion of approaches to reasoning about knowledge and its applications to distributed systems, artificial intelligence, and game theory. It brings eight years of work by the authors into a cohesive framework for understanding and analyzing reasoning about knowledge that is intuitive, mathematically well founded, useful in practice, and widely applicable. The book is almost completely self-contained and should be accessible to readers in a variety of disciplines, including computer science, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, and game theory. Each chapter includes exercises and bibliographic notes.

John Patrick's Blackjack for the 21st Century

John Patrick's Blackjack for the 21st Century
Author: John Patrick
Publisher: Centron Software
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2004
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0818406453

John Patrick is the biggest name in casino gambling today. By mastering John's four pillars of gambling success - Bankroll, Knowledge of the Game, Discipline and Money Management - players can dramatically improve their odds of walking out of the casino ahead. With John Patrick's detailed instructions, they'll learn to use logical thinking to eliminate errors from their game and improve their chances of success every time they play.

F-86 Sabre Aces of the 4th Fighter Wing

F-86 Sabre Aces of the 4th Fighter Wing
Author: Warren Thompson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2013-02-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1472802128

A compact, illustrated history of the 4th Fighter Wing and the beginnings of combat in Korea for the United States. The entry of the United States' premier jet interceptor into the Korean War was triggered by the ever-increasing presence of the Soviet-built MiG-15 south of the Yalu River. The possibility of the USAF losing air supremacy over the Korean Peninsula was unacceptable. The 4th Fighter Wing got the call for combat in Korea. They were made up of a combination of new pilots right out of jet training and the older combat veterans of World War II vintage. This combination of pilot types wrote and re-wrote the text books on jet warfare. Of the 40 jet aces that the war produced, the 4th Wing boasted 24 of them. With first-hand accounts and stunning illustrations inside, this book details these incredible pilots and the planes they flew.