Gerald Austin Browne je americký autor a redaktor, ktorého diela často skúmajú témy spojené s intrigami a napätím. Jeho romány, ktoré sa odohrávajú v medzinárodnom prostredí, vynikajú štylistickou eleganciou a schopnosťou vtiahnuť čitateľov do zložitých zápletiek. Browneho jedinečný prístup k rozprávaniu príbehov, ktorý sa často prelína s prvkami napätia a sofistikovanosti, zanechal v literárnom svete nezmazateľnú stopu. Jeho schopnosť zachytiť podstatu ľudskej povahy v napínavých naratívoch robí jeho diela nadčasovými.
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.
When Grady Bowman and his new girlfriend, Julia Elkins, travel from San Francisco to the Far East to get Grady back into the gem business, a jeweler in Bangkok tells them the extraordinary true story of two female Japanese pearl divers who discovered in the Andaman Sea an oyster bed filled with priceless, naturally blue pearls. The divers were murdered for what they found, and now the son of one of the divers wants revenge. As Grady and Julia hunt for the source of the priceless pearls, they are led to the estate and oyster farms of the world’s wealthiest pearl dealer. Here Julia becomes increasingly obsessed with the divers’ tragic deaths, and she and Grady will unravel an extraordinary mystery of one man’s obsession and another man’s crime, and the world’s most breathtaking naturally blue pearls.
Die Geschichte spielt in einem jahrhundertealten Gebäude in einer engen Straße im Herzen Londons, wo eine Firma namens das System, das weltweit lukrativste und am wenigsten bekannte Kartell, die Kontrolle über die Diamanten der Welt hat. Das Unternehmen wählt die Steine aus, die ein Kunde kaufen kann, und bestimmt, wie viel er für dieses Privileg bezahlen muss. Ein Händler hat genug von diesem Spiel und plant, das System für immer zu zerstören. Mit Hilfe seiner Geliebten entwirft Chesser einen Plan, um die Büros in der 11 Harrowhouse zu infiltrieren und sich mit jedem Diamanten, den das System besitzt, davonzumachen. Doch dieser milliardenschwere Raub ist nicht so einfach, wie es scheint, denn das System hat immer ein Auge darauf.
Sworn to avenge the murder of his sister, Andrew Gainer joins a cabal operated by a master strategist who has perfected the art of "washing" money. Racing through Manhattan, Zurich and Paris, this pulsing, sophisticated thriller was a New York Times bestseller--from the author of 18mm Blues.
