The Big Caper

The wheels were beginning to turn. From all parts of the country quiet, tough men slipped into the small southern coastal town and took up the final vigil.

There was the arsonist, the safe blower, the boy-faced killer-there was a regiment of crack, lawless men waiting out the minutes until Saturday night-the night the town would explode into violence.

For in the center of town sat the bank-a citadel of twelve million dollars, impregnable as Gibraltar, safe as a church.