The Diamond Conspiracy

by Nicolas Kublicki

Overview

Justice Department prosecutor Patrick Carlton uncovers a vast conspiracy to control the world supply of diamonds that began in 1920 Arkansas and leads to present-day Africa, Siberia, Sicily, the Vatican--all the way to the White House. Carlton will need everything he's got to bring the monopoly to justice--and to stay alive.

You will never look at diamonds the same again.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016197319
Publisher:	Rellihan Satterlee
Publication date:	01/12/2012
Series:	Patrick Carlton Adventure Series , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Nicolas Kublicki (Koo-Blitz-Key) was born in Los Angeles of a French mother and a Polish father, both World War II survivors (in 1998, Israel's Yad Vashem Foundation awarded his father the Righteous Gentile Medal for hiding a Jewish woman during the Nazi occupation of Poland in World War II).

Nick graduated from the Lycée Français de Los Angeles and obtained his BA in International Relations from UCLA. He worked on defense and national security affairs on Capitol Hill for two years before obtaining his JD from Pepperdine University School of Law, then his LLM in Environmental Law from George Washington University Law School. He is admitted to the Bars of California, the District of Columbia, and the United States Supreme Court.

After serving in the Office of Policy and the Environmental Enforcement Section of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., Nick returned to Los Angeles to begin practicing real estate law in 1994. He left his law firm partnership in 2003 and currently splits his time between writing, the real estate business, charitable and community boards, and teaching Real Estate Transactions as an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University School of Law.

Nick's love of writing began at an early age. "I fell in love with writing stories as a kid during summer vacations, when my friends were swimming or hiking," he explains. He admits to regularly cutting English classes at UCLA to write short stories in the library.

While searching for his first law job, he was watching a television documentary about the history of the diamond trade on PBS and thought: "I have to write a novel about this." He was instantly hooked and started researching and writing The Diamond Conspiracy. Yet wanting to become a novelist and actually becoming one was not that simple, he soon realized. Working long, demanding hours as a lawyer required him to write in his spare time. It took him nine long years to complete and edit The Diamond Conspiracy, which received rave reviews from trade reviewers and fellow authors. It took another eight years to write and edit The Tesla Formula.