Special Operations Group: Salvation

Near the end of World War II, Japanese forces under General Yamashita's command buried tons of looted Filipino gold throughout the jungles of the Philippines... awaiting a time when the tide of war would once again turn in Japan's favor. However, only a few months later, Japan surrendered to American forces and General Yamashita was executed for Japanese war crimes. Almost 25 years following the surrender of Japan in 1945, the Philippine Government and U.S. special operations forces began an ongoing battle with generations of Muslim separatists on the southern-most Philippine islands of Mindanao, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi. SOG: SALVATION is the fictional account of a Marine Special Operations Command ('MARSOC') team seconded to the CIA's Special Operations Group ('SOG') who find themselves racing against a group of Jemaah Islamiyah ('JI') terrorists to recover General Yamashita's lost gold from a jungle bunker recently discovered by a local village farmer. Should Jemaah Islamiya beat MARSOC to Yamashita's gold, the balance of power in the southern Philippines may finally tip in favor of Muslim extremists.