DEATH BY THE DIAMOND

This is a riveting story about how a rural bred boy escapes abject poverty to become a parvenu, albeit through deadly organized crime. Battered by forceful winds of discontent, Tendo leaves behind his country of birth, Zimbabwe, with nothing but sweet memories of a more illustrious past. His beloved country is seized by strife and economic meltdown. The hadeda had ceased in mid-flight and stopped calling. He tempts fate by illegally crossing the croc infested Limpopo River into South Africa in anticipation of succulent pastures. To his dismay, he soon discovers the streets of Egoli, the City of gold, are not paved in sparkling Gold, Caviar or Gucci but are hard, cold and fraught with danger. Fortuitously, the discovery of diamonds in Marange, a desolate and picturesque corner of Eastern Zimbabwe, becomes the New Eldorado, giving him a second sniff at life and so too, to a horde of other badass fortune seekers from across the globe who descend on tranquil Marange like buzzards to a carcass. Undownputtable!