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From the author of SYBILLE, a study in murder, and THE EMPIRE comes this penetrating story of five men from a global construction company sent out to build a dam in a Third World country. Each man carried with him from his own life a weakness and an ambition that brought the great project to great wealth and death and disaster. The diammonds, cut mostly in the brilliant style, were around twenty to thirty carots in size and blue white. There were several sapphires among the carelessly strewn stones and one ruby of such color, fire and depth as I had neveer seen before. We stood there silently, spellbound. "Sacred stones, Oomba said. No one touch stones. So many died for them." His voice was gentle. "Some have tried., he went on in that low, hypnotic voice.... All must die and die in agony for touch sacred stones, die...... Oomba's voice was sorrowful, die horrible deaths I do not want to describe..." It was then I saw Harlow's eyes. And I knew we were in deep trouble....