Description: Craving a travel opportunity, Mark Rayner accepts from jewels dealer De Beers what seems a fairly tame freelance job: fly to Angola and gather information on Kabinda, an elusive competitor who is stealing De Beers's business. In the unremitting heat and filth of Angola's illicit diamond mines, Rayner learns that Kabinda monopolizes the market through terror and violence. His assignment swiftly leads him from the diamond deposits into the jungle of ivory smuggling and African terrorism. Rayner returns home to Massachusetts hoping to leave his haunting experiences in Africa behind him. But when the news reaches him that thugs gunned down a De Beers employee, he realizes his reconnaissance trip to Angola cannot be entirely forgotten yet. The men who carried out the hit and run are now after Rayner, and much more is at stake than simply the competitive edge in the diamond industry.

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