Final Effects

Made by Serif

Okinawa 1967

A Marine’s sea bag goes into storage on the island of Okinawa, to be retrieved after Corporal Daniel Keane completes his thirteen month tour of duty in South Vietnam.

The bag suddenly appears almost forty years later, as its warehouse home is demolished after decades of neglect.

Washington, D. C. 2006

Jack Keane, high impact business consultant and the younger brother of a long dead Marine, takes delivery of his brother’s last effects. Never satisfied with the murky explanation of Daniel Keane’s last days, he unpacks the aged canvas cylinder.

What he discovers inside launches him on a journey to discover what really happened one rain-soaked January night in Da Nang, Vietnam, at the height of the war.

Chris Joyce is a second-career writer (version 2.0). After investing his first thirty professional years as a CFO, he appreciates the freedom that fiction allows, after many years of working with financial facts. Chris also served with the Marines in Vietnam. He lives in Northern Virginia.

Final Effects is his third novel.