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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1366396, member: 19065&quot;]Perhaps it has something to do with the book being a work of Fiction. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://goldmed.eddiestevenson.co.za/block/1.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://goldmed.eddiestevenson.co.za/block/1.shtml" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://goldmed.eddiestevenson.co.za/block/1.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://goldmed.eddiestevenson.co.za/block/1.shtml" rel="nofollow"></a><span style="color: #000080"><a href="http://goldmed.eddiestevenson.co.za/block/1.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://goldmed.eddiestevenson.co.za/block/1.shtml" rel="nofollow"><b>The Thief Who Couldn&#039;t&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Sleep</b></a></span><span style="color: #000080"> <i>by</i><b> Lawrence&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Block </b></span><span style="color: #000080">First published 1966</span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><font size="2">&quot;For 48 years a cool 573 pounds and 4 ounces of&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; pure gold lay sealed up under somebody&#039;s front porch in a forgotten town&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; in a godforsaken corner of Turkey. Only two people in the world knew&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; about the ../gold. One was an old lady in Brooklyn, who would never again&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; leave her wheelchair. The other was Evan Tanner—adventurer extaordinary,&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; the man who never slept and who was a wee bit crazy in the head... <b>But not too crazy to know that 573 pounds and 4 ounces of gold would&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; bring $371,520 in American greenbacks.</b> Still, crazy enough to risk his&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; life all across Europe and Eurasia just to find out if the old lady was&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; right—and if he would be the only hero in modern history to get away with&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; all the dirty money...</font></span>&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>While fictitious, that sounds like fair amount of money in the supposed time-frame. Regardless of the fantasy of the story, no one can know the future performance of a commodity and he would have needed to wait all these years hoping to cash in and not succumb be other thieves, illness or death before realizing such a future profit. Given his situation, cashing out at the time would have been the best way to cover his crime and to reuse the money to buy material he could claim a provenance for, then wait to see where its value went. But, like I said, while we can suspend reality and fantasize about what it, this is all just pure fiction for amusements sake.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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