The Frisco-to-L.A. mint train. Eight Quentin cons on board. There’s a track-switch snafu. Four masked men swarm the train. They overpower the crew. The cons escape en masse. The escape precedes the robbery. Seven men are hunted down and shot and killed that day. The unwritten law holds sway. Escape mandates death. One man eludes the dragnet. He’s still at large. Fritz Wilhelm Eckelkamp. DOB 10/12/98. He’s German-born. He’s a Great War stalwart. He wins the Iron Cross. He goes bad in ’20s Berlin. He toes the Sparticist line and skirmishes with Brownshirt
