Gerald Austin Browne è un autore e redattore americano le cui opere esplorano spesso temi di intrigo e suspense. I suoi romanzi, frequentemente ambientati in contesti internazionali, si distinguono per il loro stile e la loro capacità di immergere i lettori in trame complesse. L'approccio narrativo unico di Browne, che spesso fonde suspense e sofisticazione, ha lasciato un segno indelebile nel panorama letterario. La sua abilità nel catturare l'essenza della natura umana all'interno di avvincenti narrazioni rende la sua opera duratura e avvincente.
Cynical, ne'er-do-well New Yorker John Wiley, seeking to get away from it all, meets up with a self-destructive young heiress and earns the disfavor of the South American syndicate which controls the black market in Colombian emeralds.
In an international realm of million-dollar stones, billion-dollar buyers and a fierce, never-ending pursuit of finely cut perfection, a flawed little stone called #588 does not even qualify as a gem. But when 588 is stolen, it draws a diamond dealer, a rich woman and her minions, a thief, a mobster and even the CIA into an explosive hunt of betrayal, obsession and murder. Reissue.
The love-at-first-sight between Soviet diamond trader Nikolai Borodin and Londoner Vivian Holberg is menaced by high stakes diamond smugglers and a ruthless, globe girdling diamond cartel.
In an international realm of million-dollar stones, billion-dollar buyers and a fierce, never-ending pursuit of finely cut perfection, a flawed little stone called #588 does not even qualify as a gem. But when 588 is stolen, it draws a diamond dealer, a rich woman and her minions, a thief, a mobster and even the CIA into an explosive hunt of betrayal, obsession and murder. Reissue.
