The Java Gold: Book Two: Winds of Fortune

"Winds of Fortune" is the second volume of "The Java Gold", a multipart series describing the quest for a load of pure gold that went missing just after the outbreak of the Pacific War.
It is early 1948. The war is over but there is no peace in South East Asia. Nations strive for independence and fiercely resist the return of their former colonial masters. The few survivors of the gold flight are caught in this ground-swell of violence, betrayal and murder. Misfortune and disillusion follow them when, independent of each other, they attempt to retrieve the lost gold. And at the same time they are pursued by dangerous enemies that are now on the trail of the treasure.
The story takes the reader all over South-East Asia and Australia and plays against an exciting and tumultuous background. The Indonesian struggle for independence opposed by the Dutch and threatened by political and military conspirators. Murky plots hatched by foreign intelligence operatives. And shady companies with doubtful airplanes flying emigrants into Australia and smuggling out gold from the outback...