The Ace, Jack D. Hunter
The Ace, Jack D. Hunter
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The Ace

Author: Jack D. Hunter

Narrator: Paul Michael Garcia

Unabridged: 10 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/18/2009


Synopsis

Four Americansa twentyyearold social outcast, a breezily iconoclastic Army officer, a ruthless U.S. senator, and a guiltridden heiressare inexorably drawn together in their struggles to deal with America's chaotic involvement in World War I. Their interwoven destinies lead from povertystricken slums through the opulence of 19171918 Washington, London, and Paris and, climactically, into the Western Front's vicious aerial combat, which establishes the matrix for all air warfare to come.

About Jack D. Hunter

Jack D. Hunter (1921–2009) often based his novels on his experiences as a US counterintelligence agent in World War II. The Blue Max was made into a motion picture, and The Expendable Spy was awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Special Award from the Mystery Writers of America.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Laura

It was interesting reading ww1 fiction. I’ve read a lot more ww2......more

Goodreads review by Noel

I enjoyed this audiobook. More contemplative than what you might expect from a novel with this title, I found the character studies intriguing in the context of their time. WW1 is the great forgotten war given the ferociousness of WW2. Considering that there are no surviving veterans that saw active......more

Goodreads review by Susanne

A US Air Force friend of mine loved this book. Definitely a 5 star read to him. So I'm putting it on my To Read shelf, but going with the 5 stars since he loved it so. :)......more