Used paperback in poor condition. Cover showing heavy wear. pages with normal age discolouration and some pages have stains on the very outside edge. Scribbling on flyleaf. Book is intact and a decent reader's copy. 320 pages. Published by Pan Books, 1980. ISBN 0330259571.

Newsman Ben Dryden is assigned to South Africa to report on the wealthy Woolf diamond-mining family. He needs a good story to save his reputation as a foreign correspondent.

With the beautiful Rina McNeil, heiress to the vast mining fortune, he uncovers a generations-old plot to murder Woolf and his family.

Woolf himself, blissfully unaware that death could be imminent.

Ozier, the old African bushman with a past full of painful secrets.

The GPA, a band of ruthless terrorists intent on killing anyone in their way.