Julia Elkins accompanies Grady Bowman to Rangoon and the annual Gem Emporium, only to find their journey has become intertwined with a bloody incident carried out decades before.

The classic New York Times–bestselling tale of suspense and intrigue that takes readers behind the scenes of the secretive billion-dollar diamond business From a centuries-old building on a narrow street in the heart of London, a firm known as the System, the world's most lucrative and least-known cartel, maintains a stranglehold on the world's diamonds. The company selects the stones a customer can buy and decides how much he must pay for the privilege....