MEMENTO MORI
Book Details
Author(s)David Schaefer
ISBN / ASINB007PVTQ7U
ISBN-13978B007PVTQ74
Sales Rank2,048,135
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Danielle Krome has disappeared with a handful of uncut diamonds worth a small fortune. She considers them as fitting payment for her many years of love and devotion to Boston underworld boss, Ari Zidel. At the time of her disappearance, she was risking her life as a pack mule in one of Zidel's many illegal enterprises, smuggling Blood Diamonds from Sierra Leone to Amsterdam. In a bloody ambush at a dingy little café out in the middle of nowhere, nearly everyone is killed...except Danielle Krome, who manages to escape with the shipment of diamonds.
Ari Zidel wants his diamonds back, and he wants revenge. Yet after nearly three years, he has all but given up on the thought of ever finding his mule or his diamonds. He has simply run out of places in the world to look. But in a stroke of almost unbelievable luck, Danielle Krome suddenly turns up in a photograph. She is a waitress at a restaurant in Malibu, California, where a drunken wedding party was held for Zidel's niece.
Realizing that going after her himself or sending one of his henchmen is almost guaranteed to scare her off, Zidel decides to send college Professor Jonathan Casey, a man who owes him a huge gambling debt from a losing ticket on a horse race. He instructs Casey to get the diamonds by whatever means he finds necessary. Unfortunately, none of them has any idea that other people are also seeking the diamonds and that they are now playing with a hornet's nest...until it is too late.
In a fast-paces thriller that takes us on a wild ride from Sierra Leone, to Amsterdam, to Boston, and finally to Los Angeles, David Schaefer has opened up a world of greed, treachery and murder, and finally the unlikely chance of change and hope and new beginnings. But first, Danielle Krome must make the choice between keeping a handful of diamonds or saving her own life.
Ari Zidel wants his diamonds back, and he wants revenge. Yet after nearly three years, he has all but given up on the thought of ever finding his mule or his diamonds. He has simply run out of places in the world to look. But in a stroke of almost unbelievable luck, Danielle Krome suddenly turns up in a photograph. She is a waitress at a restaurant in Malibu, California, where a drunken wedding party was held for Zidel's niece.
Realizing that going after her himself or sending one of his henchmen is almost guaranteed to scare her off, Zidel decides to send college Professor Jonathan Casey, a man who owes him a huge gambling debt from a losing ticket on a horse race. He instructs Casey to get the diamonds by whatever means he finds necessary. Unfortunately, none of them has any idea that other people are also seeking the diamonds and that they are now playing with a hornet's nest...until it is too late.
In a fast-paces thriller that takes us on a wild ride from Sierra Leone, to Amsterdam, to Boston, and finally to Los Angeles, David Schaefer has opened up a world of greed, treachery and murder, and finally the unlikely chance of change and hope and new beginnings. But first, Danielle Krome must make the choice between keeping a handful of diamonds or saving her own life.
