Diamond Hunters

New York Timesbestselling author Wilbur Smith has set the standard for globe-spanning adventure, pulse-pounding suspense, and risk-it-all human drama.The Diamond Huntersdelivers itas two men with a passion for power fight to control a family legacy and untold fortune inSouth Africa's dazzling and perilous emerald coast... A FATHER'S LEGACY. The Van Der Byl Diamond Company has been ruled to the death by its founder, Jacob, who has bequeathed the invaluable business to his son Benedict, his daughter Tracey, and unexpectedly to Johnny, his estranged foster-childand his most bitter rival in diamond hunting. But the inheritance does not come from paternal love, but from inconsolable hatred. ONE SON AVENGED IT. To Benedict, Jacob has made an unyielding demand...destroy Johnny. Ruthlessly jealous of his brother's success, Benedict vows to pursue his goalacross the roiling ocean waters that hide fabulous fortune to the diamond-rich seabeds in the coral islands of Thunderbolt to a fabled cache of riches waiting beneath the African earth. ONE SON WOULD KILL FOR IT. But as Traceyand a long-lost loveenter the fray, what unfolds under the desert sun is a violent life-and-death struggle of greed, betrayal, passion, and murder that could consume them all. "Smith is without rival." --TulsaWorldSmith, Wilbur is the author of 'Diamond Hunters ', published 2005 under ISBN 9780312989415 and ISBN 0312989415.