The Stack by RJ Dodd Synopsis

Robbing a Turkish bank of its gold on the war-torn peninsula of Gallipoli was not the uppermost thought in the minds of two young men from Cumberland when they joined the British Army in 1915.

After their return from the war, via a spell in the trenches of France they cannot settle back into the lifestyle they once had and they decide to return to Turkey to recover the gold they had hidden and then proceed to a new life in Australia,

They buy two large adjoining tracts of timberland, The Stack and Wongon, both are one million acre estates, they settle down, have families and prosper

Then the dark secret that they left in the Turkish bank vault comes back to haunt them and their families.

This saga covers three generations with numerous strands as the families expand grow and involves the start of the second world war, it is full of danger, travel, romance, misplaced love, treachery, greed, infidelity, tribal humour and is based on two real life stories.