Rough Cut

Pink diamonds, the rarest, most expensive diamonds on earth, bring out the worst in people. Desire always... Corruption inevitably... Murder as a matter of course...
Charlie Robertson went from penniless Cockney kid dodging the Nazi bombing raids, to successful businessman lying in a coma in St Thomas's hospital in London, all because of pink diamonds.
They drew him into a world of corrupt Government officials, sleazy international bankers, a global diamond monopoly, South African killers, and a ruthless ex-Stasi Colonel which nearly killed him.
They also made him half a billion pounds.