Deadly Diamonds
A Novel
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Publisher Description
Blood Diamonds—the deadly brutality of Sierra Leone comes to the streets of Boston
What do Boston, Dublin, and Sierra Leone have in common? The movement of "blood diamonds" at enormous profit but grave human expense: mafia killings in Boston and Ireland and child enslavement and murder in Sierra Leone. And who is ensnared in the middle of all of this — Michael Knight and Lex Devlin. Can they stop the enormously profitable trade of these tainted jewels?
They must come between the Italian Mafia in the North End of Boston and the Irish Mob in South Boston including some remnants of the IRA in Ireland. They must also pit themselves against the enslaved and deadly child-army in Sierra Leone, who smuggle these diamonds into the mainstream for cash to buy weapons and drugs. At great personal risk, Knight and Devlin struggle to find a solution that satisfies this disparate combination of characters and, hopefully, dampens the diamond flow.
Perfect for fans of Nelson DeMille
While all of the novels in the Knight and Devlin Thriller Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:
Neon Dragon
Frame-Up
Black Diamond
Deadly Diamonds
Fatal Odds
High Stakes
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Walking stereotypes mar the promising premise of Dobbyn's plot-driven fourth thriller featuring Boston lawyer Michael Knight (after 2012's Black Diamond), in which mobsters from both the Italian and the Irish mafias, along with some members of the IRA, combat one another over influence and diamonds. When the boss of the Irish mafia comes to Knight for legal advice after finding a dead body in a car that his son stole, Knight believes that it's more than a case of simple joyriding. But neither he nor his partner, Lex Devlin, suspects that the schemes are of international proportions. Too many players clutter the fast-paced drama, which stretches from Boston's North End and South End to Ireland and to Sierra Leone, where slaves toil in the mud under the watch of brutal masters, who care only for the diamonds they extract. Only with the introduction of the escaped slave Bantu does the novel feel grounded in real people instead of tropes.
