| 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). |
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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. |
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| Text on this site Copyright © 2005Lester S. Taube, all rights reserved. |
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| 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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| The Grabbers |