Japanese Gold: First Book in the Gold Fever Series

The year is 1942, in California during World War II where the first part of this saga occurs, it is a bold tale with a staggering amount of gold and jewels, some 500 tons of gold and one ton of faceted gemstones that was stolen by the Japanese Army from the Malaysians. This story will reveal greed, intrigue, spying, counter spying, sabotage, murder, and red herrings. There is no doubt that the stakes were high and deadly. Our heroes over the years had no illusions about what would happen to them if they made one slip of the tongue and were caught in this deadly game. A horrible death stalks them from the either side.

The Malaysians salvaged this gold from an American wrecked clipper ship bound for England to pay for the American civil war debt and could not keep it. The Japanese took this gold to pay for their World War II war debt and couldn't keep it. The American government schemed to take this gold away from the Japanese to pay for their World War II war debt and missed the opportunity. Yamashita took this gold for his retirement, and lost the gold and his life.

Anyone that has touched this gold has only kept it for a while and then lost it. Gold fever, a,k,a, greed, is the oldest sickness in the world. Only the strongest or smartest will get to keep this gold that now belongs to no one. If the gold belongs to no one then it is up for grabs to anyone that wants to steal it from a weaker owner.

Some 45 years later, the gold was found in a small bay in Northern Australia where six men tried to keep this gold for themselves, even though it was against the law of Australia. These six men fought with Yamashita's son to keep the gold, tricked the Australian authorities that there was no gold, befriended the gold investment bankers and fought the Japanese Yakusa and Malaysian Tong gang in order to try to try to keep this gold. Most of the faceted gemstones that were part of this looted treasure were returned to the Buddhist church. These six men knew, that if one mistake was made they would either be killed or sent to prison for a long time.