Goering's Gold

In 1934 Hermann Goering was flying high as the Nazi Party came to power. Knowing Hitler's radical plans were a gamble, Goering smuggled three tons of gold out of Germany, embedded in hydroelectric pipe manufactured for a project in the Pacific Northwest; a distant nest egg just in case Nazi plans went awry.When the Third Reich fell in 1945, Goering's personal papers were seized by the Russians and wound up lost in storage, undiscovered until a former KGB agent stumbled upon them in...
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In 1934 Hermann Goering was flying high as the Nazi Party came to power. Knowing Hitler's radical plans were a gamble, Goering smuggled three tons of gold out of Germany, embedded in hydroelectric pipe manufactured for a project in the Pacific Northwest; a distant nest egg just in case Nazi plans went awry.When the Third Reich fell in 1945, Goering's personal papers were seized by the Russians and wound up lost in storage, undiscovered until a former KGB agent stumbled upon them in 2001. This was also the year the U.S. government's finest assassin, Jerry Dearborn, was considered lost when his team's jet was shot down by a Cuban MiG over the Caribbean, following a botched mission on the Yucatan Peninsula. Unknown to the U.S. government--and its secret assassination squad, the Foreign Intervention Coordination Office (FICO)--Jerry wasn't on the jet.Now camped out in hiding near the same hydro project where Goering's pipes were installed, Jerry is involuntarily drawn into a struggle between shadowy forces searching for the gold, while desperately trying to remain undiscovered by FICO, whose director would view Jerry's death as helpful in maintaining Congressional funding. Stan Morse is a lawyer, author, keynote speaker and motivational presenter for kids, who lives in Washington State. The inspiration for Goering's Gold came from his discovery in 1976 of swastikas cast into pipes at a local hydroelectric plant. The novel's cover was created from an actual photograph of one such pipe. The story, unlike the photo, is pure fiction. Maybe . . .