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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DRASKO

The Bankee Syndicate was the biggest mafia outfit in England, operating for almost a century.

Seventy years ago, they were but a street gang, the Bankee Boys, out of St. Giles.

Forty or so years ago, they had signed a truce with the Smethwicks, another local gang, then started running deals with the Sixty-Fivers from Manchester.