Peter Gray 

As the Nazi storm clouds were gathering, Charlie Robertson was growing up as a Cockney kid, dodging poverty, and then the Luftwaffe bombs falling on London.  As the bombing raids increase, his mother, in a desperate attempt to protect her son, sends seven year old Charlie away to Australia, all alone. 

 

He feels abandoned and vows to return one day. One day when he wouldn't be a penniless kid any more. He suffers years of fruitless hard work and frustration, culminating in great tragedy. Finally, his luck changes and he finds pink diamonds, the rarest diamonds on earth, but finding the diamonds turns out to be the easy part. Getting them onto the international market is a much more difficult problem as Charlie soon discovers. 

 

He is confronted by a world of corrupt Government officials, sleazy international bankers, a global diamond monopoly, South African killers and a ruthless ex-Stasi Colonel, all trying to stop him. 

 

But giving up wasn’t in Charlie Robertson’s DNA...  

 

 

Rough Cut is the first book in the Charlie Robertson Series.