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The Diamond Smugglers

The true story to rival any thriller

Ian Fleming,

First published in 1957

OVERVIEW

‘One day in April 1957 I had just answered a letter from an expert in unarmed combat writing from a cover address in Mexico City, and I was thanking a fan in Chile, when my telephone rang.’

The Diamond Smugglers is the true story of an operation responsible for smuggling millions of pounds worth of precious gems out of Africa. Ian Fleming draws on interviews with the reluctant hero of the diamond companies’ counter-attack to explore the world of the real master criminals of his time. The result rivals Fleming’s greatest spy novels.

Discover an essential piece of reporting, written in Ian Fleming’s own clear and vivid prose.

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REVIEWS

‘Exciting and richly fascinating. Ringing true as fact, is at the same time as highly entertaining as any fiction’

The Sunday Times

‘The book is put together with a skill one would expect from Mr Fleming’

The Times Literary Supplement

‘The background to some of the material which Fleming has used so effectively in his thrillers – authenticated for the true crime fancier’

Kirkus Reviews

‘A delightful dose of nostalgia. A gem’

Country House Library