The Diamond King

The Diamond King

Author: Vlad Kahany, V. Kahany Listening Length: 15h 51m

The Great Gatsby meets Peaky Blinders… How does a street thief become a king? When Drasko, a nine-year-old thief from the slums, is presented with a once-in-a-lifetime offer, life takes him to a far-away land on the hunt for diamonds. Twenty years later, Drasko Mawr, now the wealthiest diamond miner in the world, come...

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29. THE WOLLENDORFS

THE WOLLENDORFS

Andhra Pradesh, India

The Wollendorf brothers, Franz and Heinrich, had noses like sniffer dogs.

For diamonds, naturally. They owned the Wollendorf Consortium out of South Africa, the newly found diamond hub that was yielding more diamonds than India ever had.