YAMASHITA'S GOLD

When a cash-strapped Baltimore banker with a gambling past impersonates a murdered gold "Mandate" to fund his sister's life-saving transplant, he and a sharp British PA race across Manila, Zurich, and a hidden Philippine cave to prove Yamashita's lost bullion is real, outmaneuver a ruthless French trader and a vengeful Japanese heir, and survive a paramilitary crossfire long enough to close the deal. Adventure-thriller with a procedural spine and a romantic throughline.