Reichbahn Six-Nine — Tom Townsend

Reichbahn Six-Nine is the story of a German military train of the same name that is discovered at the bottom of a Bavarian lake during the present day. It contains the World War II-vintage German gold coins and bullion, along with the discovered bodies of a dozen high-ranking SS officers never found at the end of the war. A modern M-16 is clutched in the hands of one of the well-preserved German officers.

Protagonist Beau Mitchell, a rowdy but likeable Texas salvage diver, along with his brillant but fantasy-driven girlfriend Sherri Vail, team up with Werner Katz and James Fafner (German and American museum curators) to raise the train from the lake and share the gold. They get more than they bargained for as the German soldiers awaken from their time-travel suspension made possible by stolen plans of the failed World War II U.S. Philadelphia project that was refined by German scientists during the war. Once revived in present day, the SS officers plan to take 1990's technology, weaponry, and history back to the 1944 era and use this newly acquired knowledge to defeat the allied forces.

The long awaited sequel to Panzer Spirit