Death Tide — Dave Monroe

In the final days of World War II, a series of strange coincidences happen in the jungles of Thailand. First, all the prisoners of a Japanese POW camp escape at once. Then a train loaded with stolen gold from Burma is stopped near the prison camp and some of the gold is stolen again. Finally, a plane carrying the camp's commandant and the gold takes off from a hastily constructed airfield and heads southeast.Nearly sixty years later Mitch Stone is on vacation in Thailand and learns of a local legend about a plane full of gold at the bottom of the sea. While he searches for the truth to the legend, he discovers a diabolical plot to use genetically engineered bacteria to extort money from the world's industrial powers.Mitch faces skepticism and death in his efforts to prove what he believes.