Are you challenged by a mystery?

          Can you find the stolen artifact?  On a mission for Naval Intelligence, three naval officers face deadly opposition on Minnesota’s Iron Range.  A golden artifact disappears among iron miners.  Three naval officers set out to recover the Golden Eagle, hidden in northern Minnesota.  They are up against two Japanese Army officers who will commit any atrocity to recover the artifact.  Their efforts go awry; a friend dies rather than reveal its location.

          Dragonlair was described as a routine training mission.  One member of their team, however, knew their task was something much more sinister and critical to British and American Intelligence efforts in the two years leading up to World War II.  They came to Minnesota in 1938 to find a monk named Godfrey and an artifact he was protecting. They found instead his sister Mary who disliked ‘Brits’ and barely trusted Americans.  They found a Bishop who thinks Duluth is his fiefdom.  They found a crooked lottery run by several mine foremen and a bartender with arms the size of pistons and the temper of a cranky engine.

          The Dragonlair team left MN believing that Godfrey’s letters (in the Appendix) would tell what Godfrey meant by ‘safe and dry’.