| The arid wilderness of colonial SouthAfrica is the setting for this saga of loveand ambition; the duel between twoformidable men for control of the leg-endary Kimberley diamond fields atthe turn of the century. Young Barney Barnato had nothingto lose when he abandoned his squalidexistence in London s East End andset out for the Dark Continent to makehis fortune. He built an empire andbecame a threat to the ruthless CecilRhodes, who scorned the pauper-turned-tycoon and tried at every turnto destroy him. But the ghetto Jew proved to bemore than a match for the snobbishRhodes, who had bought himselfa titleand craved total control of the diamond trade, where millions were made andlost overnight. Barnato s struggle, which took himfrom unbearable poverty to unimaginedriches, from loveless slums to the lov-ing arms of a beautiful woman, alwaysstalked by the malevolent Rhodes,makes for a riveting novel blending his-tory with fiction in the frontier days ofnineteenth-century empire building.Robert L. Fish was born in Cleveland,Ohio, and lived in Trumbull, Connect-icut. He is best known as a writer ofmystery novels. The recipient of threeEdgar Awards, the highest award of theMystery Writers of America, Mr. Fishserved as that society s president laterin his distinguished career. His novelMute Witness was made into the filmBullitt, starring Steve McQueen. He isthe author of 35 novels, including hismost recent, Pursuit, as well as the bi-ography of the celebrated soccer star,Pele: My Life & the Beautiful Game. |
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