The Dry Well

When retired Englishman Peter Rawlins agrees to help an old acquaintance investigate a forgotten wartime file, he expects little more than stories about Yamashita's gold and the Japanese occupation myths buried deep in the hills of Bohol.

Instead, he uncovers something far more dangerous.

What begins with an abandoned ore wagon near Jagna slowly exposes hidden wartime transfers, vanished families, political alliances and mineral discoveries stretching back to the final months of the Pacific campaign.

As foreign investors descend on the province chasing rare earth deposits worth billions, old family loyalties, government officials and corporate interests become increasingly difficult to separate from the truth.

Linked to mysterious British T-Force intelligence files, wartime collaboration records and a deadly Senate shooting in Manila, Peter and his companions find themselves trapped between modern political power and secrets preserved since 1945.

In the Philippines, people survive however they can.

The Dry Well is a tense political mystery where history, greed and forgotten wartime secrets collide.

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