One Year with a Marcos - Tales of his Japanese War Loot

A desperate son of a bad father. An innocent bystander roped into extraordinary events. And Japanese war loot worth trillions.Fresh off selling his business in his home country of Norway, Einar Meling travels to Thailand, beginning the construction of his diving ship, the Viking of the Orient.Years later, a surprise offer to purchase his ship leads him to the eldest illegitimate son of the infamous Philippine dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos - and it sparks an unbelievable chain of events that he could never have imagined.After ten years of silence, he's ready to share his story.Expertly written with a real eye-witness account and featuring dozens of authentic documents, reports, typed and handwritten notes, letters, photographs and emails, this shocking true story reveals secrets behind vast quantities of Japanese war loot with a tragic past.With a gritty and powerful narrative, Einar recounts the year-long saga that dragged him into a worldwide plot involving the CIA, the US Navy and Air Force, the UAE, and the White House, revealing how his ship was planned as cover to extract unbelievable quantities of gold from shipwrecks and deposits in the South China Sea.The uncovered gold could change the world. As a must-read for fans of Sterling & Peggy Seagrave's research on Yamashita's Gold, One Year with a Marcos is the thrilling true account of how an ordinary businessman and diving enthusiast stumbled into a decades-long cover-up that has lasted from the end of WWII until this very day.