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The Diamond Hunters

By: Wilbur Smith
Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
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Fortunes rise and fall in Wilbur Smith's tale of warring siblings and illegal diamond trading, The Diamond Hunters.

'The jet was a solid 18-inch column, a pillar of brown mud and yellow gravel and sea water that beat against the steel plates of the hull with a hollow drumming roar. In the few seconds since the explosion the cyclone was already half filled with a slimy shifting porridge that rushed from wall to wall with the movement of the ship. It was like some monstrous jellyfish which each second gathered weight and strength.'

The Van Der Byl Diamond Company, willed by its founder to his son Benedict, his sister Tracey and their estranged foster brother Johnny Lance, turns out to be a bequest of hatred. For it is couched in such terms as to offer Benedict the instrument of destruction of his bitterest rival. 'Destroy Johnny' is the old man's implacable message. And so, consumed with envy for Johnny, Benedict sets out in ruthless pursuit of this goal - and Johnny is plunged into a maelstrom of greed, vengeance and murder....

©1970 Wilbur Smith (P)2019 Audible, Ltd Action & Adventure Genre Fiction Romance Fiction
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i loved this book but was hoping for more in the end of the book .

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Easy to listen to. It discerned some things to much but over all good. Daughter wasn’t happy with the phonetic alphabet call signs for the plane.

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So I had to download this book as part of this 'book club' my friends and I had going. We all ended up vetoing this one because of how poorly written it is. To sum up the book, it's just a lot of unnecessary similes and lazy descriptions of female characters.

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