Secrets: Spies, Lies, & Criminal Ties - Paperback

"Peculiar" is what the coroner called Albert Ruppert Manigrove III's death on a dark highway just outside Fort Knox, guardian of America's gold and home to secret U.S. military operations. It's the early 1950s, and the Cold War has turned hot. Super powers Russia and the U.S. are pitted against each other in a struggle for control of the Korean Peninsula. While this bloody encounter rages on, a more fundamental contest is bing played out in secret laboratories and testing sites around the globe. It's signature is the monstrous mushroom cloud--the Hydrogen Bomb, mankind's deadliest weapon. Was Captain Manigrove's death tied to the gold or was he a casualty of this secret war?