Death By Diamonds - Berry, Tony

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Résumé :
When a knife-wielding thug shatters a shy young Asian woman's lunch break with a vicious attack on her dog Bromo Perkins, lover of Lagavulin and double espressos, returns to the mean streets of Richmond. By next morning the woman is found brutally murdered, her body revealed as the hiding place for a clutch of illegal diamonds. The gruesome murder lures disgraced secret service agent Bromo Perkins from his would-be reclusive life in an Australian inner-city suburb and opens old wounds from a dangerous mission to Sri Lanka. Mugged and threatened, he is soon dragged back into the murky world of his past as he becomes involved with a group of mercenaries, a sex-crazed businesswoman and the dark and murderous international trade in blood diamonds. The trail of deceit and duplicity leads him to England's remote southwest where threats from an enigmatic tycoon to his daughter's life persuade him to connive in an explosive climax that rocks the back streets of his beloved Richmond.

Biographie:
Tony Berry is a journalist, editor and writer of crime fiction who has worked on newspapers, journals and magazines in the UK and Australia, where he emigrated several decades ago. In 2010 he made a spur of the moment decision to return to the UK and set up base in Cornwall while researching his family history. This resulted in the publication in 2011 of From Paupers to iPads, the story of his family across seven generations and three continents. He continues to edit fiction and non-fiction for clients in Australia and the UK and served for several years as editor of the quarterly journal of the Cornwall Family History Society. He devotes much of his spare time to running and for several years has been recognised as an elite competitor in masters' athletics at national and international level for distances from 5000m to the full marathon. His first two crime novels were shortlisted for the New South Wales Genre Fiction Award and the second also secured him one of only seven mentorships awarded by the Australian Society of Authors. He has since completed three more books in the ongoing series. Tony is a member of the Australian Society of Authors and a fully accredited member of the Institute of Professional Editors (Australia) and the Society of Editors and Proofreaders (UK).