Lester Taube started his military career with the horse artillery at the age of fifteen. He was a platoon leader during World War II, fighting in Iwo Jima and
Okinawa. He left the army to run a series of successful business ventures, then returned to military service as an advisor to the Turkish army, as an
intelligence officer and company commander in Korea, and as a general staff officer in intelligence and war plans during the Vietnam war.  Prior to his
retirement as a full Colonel, he lived in a small village in Austria before moving back to the United States, where he now resides in New Jersey. He is the
author of four highly-acclaimed books published throughout the world including Myer for Hire, The Cossack Cowboy, Peter Krimsov and The Grabbers
(The Diamond Boomerang).
    The Grabbers

A diamond theft thriller?

Dan Baldwin, an ex-colonel whose life has
crashed, is rescued from a gutter in North Africa
and finds himself elected at gunpoint to the
company of a purposeful trio about to raid the
secret diamond field of a relentless south-west
African cartel.  He contrives to locate the
diamonds, and, for his pains, is left for dead by
the gang's treacherous leader, who has conspired
to secure the entire illicit haul for himself.

The furious climax is reached in London, where
Dan, after a tempestuous clash and torrid love
affair with the beautiful, blonde Ingrid Talaanger,
daughter of the diamond cartel's head, discovers
that for all his violence and cynicism, he can again
love a woman devotedly and be changed by her.
Text on this site Copyright © 2005Lester S. Taube, all rights reserved.
Acclaimed author, Lester Taube’s five books include his latest, Atonement for Iwo.  The Cossack Cowboy, Peter Krimsov, The Grabbers (the Diamond
Boomerang) and Myer for Hire are published in several languages and two were sold for films.


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