from satyridae

The narrator was wonderful. The material he had to work with was grueling to listen to, war and atrocities. Important things to know about the diamond trade and the almost unbelievable inhumanity surrounding it. I'm glad I've always been a CZ kind of person. If I had any diamonds I wouldn't be ab...

from Juva

A horrific true story of how world-wide desire for diamonds contributed to an extremely bloody civil war in Sierra Leone. It also reveals the market monopoly De Beers has on the diamond market and the desires manufactured to make a relatively common and mostly useless stone the most liquid commod...

from mmillet

Wow. What an amazing book. I was hooked from the very beginning reading this book. It is amazing to read about all the corruption and complacency that is in the diamond industry. It makes me feel horrible to know that the rest of the world has hardly extended any real aid in the West African conf...

from CYouL8ter

Good narrative non-fiction. I think this book highly recommendable to introduce everyone to conflict diamond wars. Had more historical details around Sierra Leon, more interesting it would be, I guess.

from LisaMaria_C

The subtitle to this one is "tracing the deadly path of the world's most precious stones." The author is a journalist and much of what he reports is first hand based on interviews from everyone involved in this illicit part of the diamond industry from miners to the middlemen to smugglers to spok...