The Tunnel Hoard.

The Tunnel Hoard

Paul Rutherford 

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Jacob Thomas and other POWs spent 16 months of their captivity at the hands of the Japanese in the jungles of the Phillipines digging a large secret tunnel in the side of a mountain. The only thing that kept Jacob alive wa a promise he made to his wife. Then he simply disappeared. Almost sixty years later in upstate New York, Connor Mason receives a coded message from his father's estranged business partner. The message exposes his father's secret life and includes sketchy information about a huge buried treasure on the other side of the world. With his own business failing, Connor decides to take his father's place in a dangerous operation already under way. The object is whatever was buried in that long lost tunnel hacked into a mountain by the long vanished Jacob Thomas and those other Japanese captives back in World War II. In writing The Tunnel Hoard, author Paul Rutherford drew upon his real-life experiences in the jungles of the Phillippines tracking down a vast cache of gold hidden by the Japanese during World War II, thereby infusing his action/adventure novel with a realism that quickly engages the reader's total and rapt attention from first page to last. Very highly recommended reading from beginning to end!