Lawrence Block 
Des Hommes Dangereux (Such Men Are Dangerous) 

A military noir thriller from early in Lawrence Block»s lengthy career, it deals with an ex-Green Beret, Paul Kavanagh, who is called out of semi-retirement on a little island in Florida to steal a shipment of high-tech weapons being stored in South Dakota — an entertaining stand-alone with plenty of twists and turns and reversals, as military heists are apparently not that easy to pull off.