Naked and glistening
Dan Jacobson, 3 April 1980
The Diamond Underworld
by Fred Kamil.
Allen Lane, 244 pp., £6.50, November 1979,0 7139 1086 0 Show More
by Fred Kamil.
Allen Lane, 244 pp., £6.50, November 1979,
“... controlled by the De Beers and Anglo-American Corporations – that they prevailed upon Flash Fred, as the author was eventually to become known, to turn ‘official’ and come and work for them in South Africa. This he did, though only after a spell in Europe, working for a ‘private agency’ which ‘had evolved as a sort of civilian subsidiary to ... ”