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"While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. But Paul's plan is not what it seems--and neither is Claude's employer, the Investment Bank of Torabundo, which...

JW is a bank president whose life in turmoil as he faces the repercussions of his gambling addiction. With his career and family hanging by a thread, JW agrees to sabotage a rival banker, a Native American named Johnny Eagle, in the hopes of regaining his own financial foothold. But as JW befriends Eagle's son and his own prejudice against Natives begins to melt away, his task becomes easier said than done.

"1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast quantities of gold and other stolen valuables in boobytrapped underground caches all across the Philippines. By 1947 some of that loot was recovered, not by treasure hunters, but by the United States government, which told no one about the find. Instead, those assets were stamped classified, shipped to Europe, and secretly assimilated into something called the Black Eagle Trust. Present day....