The Black Sun

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This novel is inspired by the incredible true story of the Hungarian Gold Train and its desperate journey across a ravaged continent in the dying days of the Second World War. When it was eventually discovered by U.S. troops in a remote Austrian tunnel, it was found to contain several billion dollars' worth of stolen gold, art, and other treasures.

All descriptions and background information provided on works of art, artists, thefts, architecture, and Nazi uniforms and rituals are similarly accurate. Descriptions of the workings of the Enigma machine have been simplified.

Extract from the volkischer beobachter, official journal of the nazi party (Edition A, No. 270, September 27, 1934), from Wewelsburg 1933–1945: A Cult and Terror Centre of the SS, by Karl Huser; translated by Robin Benson

Extract from The Spoils of World War II, by Kenneth D. Alford

Ash cash. That's what medical students call it. Every cremation or burial release form requires a doctor's signature, and every signature earns its donor a small fee. Death could be good business for a doctor who happened to be in the right place at the wrong time.

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