Synopsis
Jack Diamond is one of MI6's deadliest assassins. His long career as the sharpest and most resourceful agent in the British Secret Service is in jeopardy when he fails to act as the usual efficient killing machine on an assignment in India. The target was a level three-the highest level-organised crime lord-one of a two-man human trafficking syndicate based in Ahmedabad that had a strangle-hold over Indian society. Jack's mission-authorized by officials that would rather disavow any knowledge of missions gone awry-was compromised by a small child and the choice to melt away into the darkness was overruled by Jack's conscience and the memory of his own tragedy. Escaping to a seedy hotel, Jack nurses the knife wound in his gut and the nightmare scenario in his head with a bottle of Scotch. Unfortunately Jack doesn't have the luxury of self pity. He knows the other target-the partner-will come after him and, more importantly, he hasn't finished his assignment. Jack Diamond will face assassins, a manipulative but beautiful blonde British agent sent to recover him and his own demons before he can complete his deadly mission in this stunning spy thriller.
About the Author
Dai Llewellyn has a vocational background, prior to his retirement in 2006, steeped in promoting the British government's long fight against illegal immigration and, most latterly, in designing and instigating an intelligence-based approach to prosecuting and disrupting those organised crime gangs involved in human trafficking and immigrant smuggling on a massive national and international scale. This required him to travel to source countries on a regular basis and to have a close working relationship with the UK's secret services, which proved to be of enormous assistance across a number of projects and operations. In writing ROUGH DIAMOND, Llewellyn has drawn deeply on his long-term Diplomatic posting to India in the seventies, from which he gained an intimate knowledge of Gujarat in particular and of India's mores and social fabric. Further background on the author can be adduced from his first novel, POOR LITTLE CHESS BOY, which is semi-autobiographical and which provides an insight into his interest in espionage. The events in ROUGH DIAMOND, on the other hand, are purely fictional, as are all its characters. Llewellyn is a former junior international chess champion, he captained Bombay Gymkhana to two All India & South Asia rugby football championships and now plays bad golf in good company. He was selected to join the US Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), sponsored by the State Department, and as such is a member of the State alumni global community. He is married, has four grown-up children and lives contentedly in the south east of England.
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