This may be behind the paywall: apologies if so. The books discussed in this essay suggest that the diamond boom created a whole new platform for cutthroat capitalism, one that has steadily become the world's major affliction over the course of the last century.
Sounds like a vast noir tale, no? Seems to me that while there have been many films about diamonds/diamond smuggling, I cannot think of a film that looks at the industry from the perspective covered in the books discussed in this article. Perhaps someone will read them and get around to bringing that to the screen...
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