Goering's Gold

<b>I clamor for the next installment of Richard O'Rawe's rollicking series of heist novels featuring James 'Ructions' O'Hare.<b> <b><b>-- Sarah Weinman </b><i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b></b><br></b> <br><b>Mr. O'Rawe ... has written the most riotous caper novel since his own 'Northern Heist ' and with luck there will be more adventures ahead. --Tom Nolan <i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b> <b><br></b> <br><b>Ructions O'Hare returns in a thriller -- based on one of history's greatest unsolved heists -- pitting him against the IRA Interpol and neo-Nazis . . .</b> <b><br></b> <br> <b> </b> When WWII ended the allies discovered that a huge amount of gold bullion plundered by Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering had gone missing. Some believed the gold had been hidden in a train box car in Poland. Others that it was secreted in Lake Toplitz in the Austrian Alps. And a few thought it was buried in the Republic of Ireland which was neutral during the war. <p/> When ex-IRA soldier Ructions O'Hare stumbles on a piece of Nazi memorabilia once owned by Goering he begins to think that those who suspect the gold was in Ireland just might be on to something. <p/> But for Ructions to return to Ireland is easier said than done. For a start the IRA is after him for not paying them a cut from a huge bank robbery he carried out in Belfast. And then there's the Neo-Nazis who believe that Goering's gold rightfully belongs to them and who are happy to kill anyone who gets in their way. <p/> And as Ructions gathers clues to the gold's location and as his many adversaries realize he's getting closer it's as if a noose is tightening around his neck...