Diamonds In the Sand

It is 1940, and a catastrophic German invasion of Belgium and Holland is
imminent. Against his will, Henk de Ridder a captain in the Netherlands army
helps his father-in-law to smuggle a priceless box of cut diamonds from Antwerp
to Java. The stones arrive safely but by 1941 the Japanese are preparing to
invade the Dutch East Indies. Again Henk must hurry the box away, this time to
Australia. But the Dutch airliner carrying them is shot down by Zeros and crashes
in the wilderness of North Western Australia. Where are the stones? Can they be
recovered? Henk is one of many determined to fi nd them.