The Republic of Salu in the South Pacific is mired in a debt crisis, but the country discovers a giant gold deposit with a purity of 99.99%. Conservative estimates put its reserves at tens of millions of tons, while all the gold humanity has ever possessed amounts to only a few hundred thousand tons. The massive deposit immediately draws the covetous attention of powerful nations. War, puppet-master conspiracies, and financial tsunamis follow one after another. Driven to the brink, the people of Salu rise up, using unity and courage to resist greedy plunderers. Caught in the crossfire of great-power rivalries, they defend their homeland and write a fiery epic of a small nation reborn from desperation.
