Seton I. Miller

En route to London after being released from a mental institution, Stephen Neale stops at a seemingly innocent village fair, after which he finds himself caught in the web of a sinister underworld with possible Nazi connections.

One of the country's wealthiest men travels through Texas on the railroad and accepts an almost impossible wager: sell $100,000 worth of barbed wire to fence-hating ranchers - without ever leaving the train.