A Meeting Under A Banyan Tree - Paperback

by Grahame Kerr (Author)

Immediately after the surrender of the Japanese in September 1945, South East Asia was a cauldron of chaos and danger from Japanese armed forces who refused to accept the abrupt

ending of the war, and from the Indian, Chinese and Indonesian populace who wanted independence from their colonial masters. Much of the population of South East Asia was

starving and in China the communists and the nationalists were gearing up for civil wan Allied troops wanted to go home and not remain fighting in foreign lands.Robert Draper, recently

released from internment camp is determined to stay and make a life for himself in He also wants revenge against those who betrayed him and others in helping the Japanese to seek the gold that had been hidden in Singapore in 1942. The story is based on true events of the period. To this day no true account of the missing gold has ever been told.