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The Diamond Hunters, Wilbur Smith
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1971
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- Titel
- The Diamond Hunters
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Wilbur Smith
- Verlag
- Pan Books
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1971
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 240
- ISBN10
- 0330233807
- ISBN13
- 9780330233804
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Krimi & Thriller, Historische Romane, Abenteuer, Thriller, Action, Afrika
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1971
- Originaltitel
- The Diamond Hunters
- Bewertung
- 3,75 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- The jet was a solid eighteen-inch column, a pillar of brown mud and yellow gravel and sea water that beat against the steel plates of the hull with a hollow drumming roar. In the few seconds since the explosion the cyclone was already half-filled with a slimy shifting porridge that rushed from wall to wall with the movement of the ship. It was like some monstrous jellyfish which each second gathered weight and strength. The Van Der Byl Diamond Company, willed by its founder to his son Benedict, turns out to be a bequest of hatred. For it is couched in such terms as to offer him the instrument of destruction of his bitterest rival. Destroy Johnny is the old mans implacable message. And so, consumed with envy for his own foster-brother, Benedict sets out in ruthless pursuit of this goaland Johnny is plunged into a maelstrom of greed, vengeance and murder...