Michael Knight is a lawyer who always seems to pick clients that get him into trouble. This time he is right in the middle of a diamond war between the Irish Mafia and the Italian Mafia. Mr. O'Byrne wants him to defend his son Kevin in a murder. The victim just happens to be in the Italian Mafia.
To get the full story we have to travel back to 1999, where we meet Banta. Banta is a young boy who lives with his family in West Africa. Due to horrible circumstances, Banta is separated from his family and is hauled off to work in the mines. When he escapes, he takes with him blood diamonds. He travels to Ireland to sell these so that he may rescue his family.
Michael and Banta meet up several years later and all the pieces finally fit together. We find out why the Irish and Italian Mafia both want these diamonds.
DEADLY DIAMONDS is a mixture of Italian Mafia and Irish. Since I am Italian, I love books that are about the Mafia. There is some humor in this book. Especially some of the weird situations that Michael Knight gets into.
John Dobbyn's writing is very good. Even though the book goes from the present back to 1999, I did not get confused as which era I was reading.
If you are a fan of John Grisham I suggest you check out John Dobbyn. Deadly Diamonds is very entertaining, and mystery readers will enjoy it.
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 North Boston and the Irish mafia 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.
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