The diamond hunters

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 man's implacable message. And so, consumed with envy for his own foster-brother, Benedict sets out in ruthless pursuit of this goal - and Johnny is plunged into a maelstrom of greed, vengeance and murder . . . The Diamond Hunters moves from Cape Town to London and back, from the sandstorms of the South African coastal deserts to the icy wastes of the South Atlantic.