Blood Diamonds
Subtitle: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Published: September 3, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780813339399
Subjects: Organized crime; Sierra Leone; General; Diamond industry and trade; Science; Politics / Current Events; History: World; Africa - General; Crimes against; Social aspects; Earth Sciences - Geology; Conflict diamonds; Diamond miners
First sentence: CROUCHED BY THE MINE'S EDGE, I tried to ignore the grilling persistence of the equatorial sun overhead and concentrate on the dirt under my feet.