MacTaggart's war / Ralph Dennis.
| Author/creator | Dennis, Ralph |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, ©1979. |
| Description | 378 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Abstract | MacTaggart is a middle aging Scotsman assigned to the Bank of England as chief protector of a shipment of $500 million in gold bullion and securities being secretly removed from an invasion wary England to Canada in 1940. But news of this shipment has leaked to a money hungry British officer, who takes off for the states and contacts two equally money hungry U.S. Army officers in Fort Sam Belwin, North Carolina: one is a West Point graduate (1930) now about to be court martialed for theft of petty cash; the other is a former football star who is falling to pieces under debt and a nagging showgirl wife. These three gents naturally plan a heist of the bullion, a heist which is to take place in the small railroad station village of Wingate in the Canadian wilderness. After rounding up several down and outers who are specialists in armaments, the heisters hit a small U.S. bank for funds, then take off for the Big $500 million gold bullion in Canada. |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner Roberts copy purchased from Dorothy Meggs 02/11/2013 |
| LCCN | 78012700 |
| ISBN | 0030194660 |
| ISBN | 9780030194665 |