Hart Matthew - The Lucifer Cut - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: A heart - pounding ride through the perilous world of the modern gem trade by the acclaimed author of Diamond. When a New York diamond dealer and his wife are found dead in a chilling assassination and a mysterious gem the Lucifer Cut goes missing U. S. Treasury agent Alex Turner and his lover the billionaire Russian diamond thief known as Slav Lily are thrust into a web of global intrigue. Uncertain they can even trust each other the two find themselves on the trail of a secret so lethal it threatens not only the world diamond trade but the national security of the United States. In a fiction first diamond expert Matthew Hart tears the curtain from the secretive world of lab - grown diamonds where master chefs create astonishing gems in the 8,000 - degree furnaces of their reactors. Finally one of them makes what no one thought possible a fake so perfect not even experts can unmask it. But as Alex and Lily soon discover its allure is even more profound than its beauty as a jewel and the stone ignites a murderous race from New York to London and finally to Cape Town as a deadly enemy tries to beat them to the diamond. With knife - sharp dialogue and lacerating irony Alex and Lily navigate an ever - shifting underworld and the storms of their own desire as they rush to unravel the enigma of the Lucifer Cut and the treacheries of the human heart.
Title: The Lucifer Cut
Author(s): Hart Matthew
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Barcode: 9781639366743
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 6/11/2024
Category: Thriller / Suspense