Title: Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones
Author: Greg Campbell
Publisher: Basic
Year: 2004
280 pages
A bit on the hard-drinking, crazy journalist side for my taste, though the evidence of this style is more subdued than is often the case. As an explanatory text on blood diamonds (a.k.a. conflict diamonds), it does a very good job of following the money, exposing both corrupt and ineffective systems, and describing the trafficking/enslavement and mutilation or execution of disenfranchised and disempowered people. In this regard, it helps answer some questions about why some African countries have failed to thrive in the post-colonial period, instead becoming embroiled in civil strife.
Many gory parts--not for the faint of heart.
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