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4) Siberia
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
When a diamond merchant from America travels to Siberia to find a buyer for a collection of blue diamonds with rare and mysterious origins, he becomes tangled in an affair with the owner of a small Siberian cafe. The more obsessive his affair becomes, the more the dangerous world of the Russian diamond trade intrudes upon his life, until eventually it seems there is no way out for either him or his lover. Both his relationship and the diamonds are...
5) Shock wave
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventure volume 13
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
16 CDs (19 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
How would it feel to have the weight of a million lives on your shoulders? It's just part of the job for Dirk Pitt, eco-warrior for a national marine agency, on a case in the year 2000. Pitt's after Arthur Dorsett, a diamond tycoon who mines the Pacific with high frequency undersea sound waves. The sound's incredible energy kills everything in range, setting off a marine holocaust that threatens to reach Honolulu. Dorsett couldn't care less. Nothing...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xi, 570 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
A history of the tumultuous period leading up to the 1910 founding of the modern state of South Africa explores how the discovery of vast diamond and gold deposits led to a fierce struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the region.
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