Double Take

Paul Asher is an ordinary young buyer of men's furnishings when a sudden encounter with the enigmatic Naomi hurls him into a dangerous flight through mountain roads, across a guarded frontier, and into a hidden world where gunfire and deception blur together. The "barn" they reach is no barn at all, but a disguised spacecraft, and Paul is swept into a tense web of espionage, pursuit, and mistaken identity. Inside the ship, he finds a vast metallic interior of advanced machinery, battle stations, and a ship-like control system, with a screen showing a fierce battle raging on the planet below. Naomi and the bald, wheelchair-bound Hafitz accuse him of carrying stolen plans, while Paul insists it is all a mistake. When he discovers the hidden packet taped to his back, he destroys it, then uses quick thinking and raw nerve to turn the tables on Naomi and survive Hafitz's brutal enforcers. Separated, searched, and nearly beaten, Paul refuses to break. Exploiting the strange mechanisms of the ship, he escapes his cell and follows the wheelchair tracks deeper into the corridors, drawn toward the truth behind the mission, the conflict, and the hidden identity he has yet to understand. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.