Robert Kingsley

Winds of Fortune - Java Gold Robert Kingsley

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. Pursued by dangerous enemies, they have to endure misfortune and disillusion when, independent of each other, they attempt to retrieve the lost gold. The story plays against a tumultuous background of the Indonesian struggle for independence, opposed by the Dutch military and threatened by political conspirators and murky plots hatched by foreign intelligence operatives. It takes the reader from the emerald green Indonesian islands to romance and tragedy in Kenya and Italy. From violent action in French Indochina to Australia's barren outback where doubtful airplanes owned by shady companies ferry emigrants in and sneak out loaded with smuggled gold...