The arid wilderness of colonial South
Africa is the setting for this saga of love
and ambition; the duel between two
formidable men for control of the leg-
endary Kimberley diamond fields at
the turn of the century.
Young Barney Barnato had nothing
to lose when he abandoned his squalid
existence in London s East End and
set out for the Dark Continent to make
his fortune. He built an empire and
became a threat to the ruthless Cecil
Rhodes, who scorned the pauper-
turned-tycoon and tried at every turn
to destroy him.
But the ghetto Jew proved to be
more than a match for the snobbish
Rhodes, who had bought himselfa title
and craved total control of the diamond trade, where millions were made and
lost overnight.
Barnato s struggle, which took him
from unbearable poverty to unimagined
riches, from loveless slums to the lov-
ing arms of a beautiful woman, always
stalked by the malevolent Rhodes,
makes for a riveting novel blending his-
tory with fiction in the frontier days of
nineteenth-century empire building.
Robert L. Fish was born in Cleveland,
Ohio, and lived in Trumbull, Connect-
icut. He is best known as a writer of
mystery novels. The recipient of three
Edgar Awards, the highest award of the
Mystery Writers of America, Mr. Fish
served as that society s president later
in his distinguished career. His novel
Mute Witness was made into the film
Bullitt, starring Steve McQueen. He is
the author of 35 novels, including his
most recent, Pursuit, as well as the bi-
ography of the celebrated soccer star,
Pele: My Life & the Beautiful Game.
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