PINK PANTHERS: The Greatest Thieves (Pink Panthers Trilogy Book 1)

Ocean's Eleven meets The Godfather — except this one actually happened. This is the true story of the Pink Panthers, the gang that pulled off the biggest diamond heists in history. War, politics, dark humor, twists, flashbacks, heist action that doesn't let up — and none of it is fiction.

After pulling off three major diamond robberies in Antwerp, London, and Tokyo, the Pink Panthers bring on two new players — an elegant logistics expert and a top make-up artist — to prepare for their next job, the Diamond Biennale in Paris. Once Paris goes off successfully, they follow it up with two more spectacular robberies, at Amsterdam Airport and in Saint Tropez. But after the string of successes, the gang starts to unravel over how to split the loot. If they can't patch things up, what's left of the crew will have to regroup and train a new team for one last job — this time in Dubai.

A WORD TO THE READER

Diamond. A symbol of strength, durability, value, success, happiness, and love.

Picture the world as one long street, where diamonds sit glittering in shop windows in the richest neighborhoods on earth, stirring up that hunger for wealth, fame, and above all, power.

The young men in this book, from the former Yugoslavia, never got the childhood their peers had — no basketball or football in the neighborhood park, no chance to get anywhere near that glamorous side of the street. War pulled some of them in instead, and turned them against men they'd called brothers just the day before. Others went looking for a way out through that same dazzling world, until they found each other again and built the most powerful diamond gang the world has seen.

You, holding this book, probably walk that easy side of the street. If you've got the courage, cross it with our heroes and step into the dark world hiding behind all that glitter and glow. Find out how diamonds are really made, and the blood, sweat, and tears behind that row of shining shop windows.

From the hot sands of Africa, where greedy corporations and corrupt politicians exploit people and resources together, through shining modern Europe, all the way to Dubai — follow the Pink Panthers and live through the world's most famous diamond robberies alongside them.

Read this book if you want to know what it's really like to survive the civil wars and become a Pink Panther. Read it if you want to see how the flow of diamond money and the fate of these robbers tie into drug cartels, human trafficking, banking and corporate crime, and political maneuvering behind closed doors.

One thing's certain — once you've read it, the world will never look the same again.