Noonday Press 1995. With a scholars precision and a novelist's eye, Stefan Kanfer tells the inside story of De Beers Consolidated Mines from the nineteenth century diamond rush that transformed Johannes De Beers' humble South African farm into an exotic Klondike, to the Oppenheimers' shadow empire, which has achieved unmatched global reach. 409 pages 15x23cm+16 pages ills, sb.