Naive Diamond

The Annual Bonfire Festival was innocently arranged complete with Fairground, Candy Floss and finishing with the ineffable Firework Display all the village people enjoyed the event. But the consequences were a disaster. A badly burnt body is found amongst the ashes the following morning leading to an intensive investigation that discovers a diamond smuggling ring that involves some of the local landed gentry who are amongst the ring leaders.

Des Thompson was brought up on the banks of the River Humber in the small village of Brough in East Yorkshire. He started work in Blackburn Aircraft Factory eventually he moved down to Swindon Wiltshire in the south west of England with his wife and family to work in the car industry and then into the Transport industry becoming a Transport Manager. As a transport Manager he became involved in arranging transport all over the continent and the middle east and shipping goods to Lagos