During the Second World War, the Japanese took control of the Philippines, driving the United States forces from the Islands. While in control, the Japanese confiscated and stockpiled immense amounts of gold and other treasures and hid the plunder in caves, vaults and private homes thought the Philippines while awaiting shipment to Japan.
Most of those treasure never reached Japan. In the sixty-five years since then, many treasure hunters have roamed the islands searching for the bounty. Although some of the riches has been found, the majority still remains hidden throughout the islands.
The Abu Sayyaf and the Philippine Treasure is the story of a group of treasure hunters in search of that hidden treasure. The adventure takes energetic young miners from the safe confines of Elko, Nevada, to the treacherous jungles on the island of Mindanao. Follow them as they attempt to find and retrieve the gold and escape dangerous Abu Sayyaf. What price will they pay in their quest for the gold?

D.W. Chambers has been a miner most of my career spent a couple of years in the service then finished college. I have traveled a good part of the world from the Philippine Islands to China, Taiwan, and a short trip to Brazil. Brazil! I flew into the rain forest on a single-engine plane to look at a mining operation. The mine tour was fine; however, the plane flight from the site to civilization was an experience! We were overloaded with six passengers and too much luggage and had the misfortune of flying into a major South American storm front. If you need to start praying and looking for some help from above, that's the time to do it! I can only guess but each time we lost power we were dropping 200 feet just above the jungle canopy then back up we would go into the sky. Everyone aboard knew if we hit the trees and went down it was goodbye, my friend-the only people that might find you would be the indigenous jungle tribes! One of these days I'm going to give up the world travel to return home to Phoenix with my wife and relax a bit!