The Java Gold: Book Two: Winds of Fortune

by Robert Kingsley

Overview

"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...

Product Details

BN ID:	2940152900477
Publisher:	Robert Kingsley
Publication date:	02/25/2016
Series:	The Java Gold
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	366 KB

About the Author

About me: I am a Dutch- Canadian author who currently lives in Europe. I work as an independent ICT consultant out of the magical city of Amsterdam. I have a son and a daughter, both talented professionals in their own right. And very recently I became grandfather to a lovely grandson. About my books: First of all I am immensely proud to have reached the semi finals of the "2016 Adventure Writers Competition" with "The Odyssey", the first volume of "Java Gold" series. This multi-part historical fiction story will take the reader all over the world and through half a century of recent history. I have combined my life-long interest in aviation and military history (especially World War 2) with local, on-site knowledge, gathered during my travels all over the world as an internationally active ICT consultant. The first two volumes of "The Java Gold" are largely set in the former Dutch East Indies. Not many books have been written about the turbulent post war years in that area and especially Indonesia. The Japanese invasion, the post-war struggle for independence and the general unrest in South East Asia serve as a fascinating background to the story. The idea for the book was born during a "steak and beer" dinner in a California micro-brewery. I had just come across a number of highly intriguing facts and events that had happened in Indonesia during and after the 2nd world war. 'I could write a thriller around them' I said and one of my closest friends dared me to do so. And so I did... I originally intended to write a short "action" novel based upon the loss of a planeload of pure gold. But the story took over; love, tragedy and political complications somehow managed to sneak in and now I am busily working on Book Three of a multipart series... For those of you who want to browse the background to the novel, please do me a favour and visit my blog. There, you'll find all kind of information that was too detailed or to unrelated to fit into the story but too interesting to discard.