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ADAMAS
“ADAMAS is not a political story. It’s a romantic, suspenseful tale about the invincible spirit of humankind against all odds. But Alexandra York’s passion for freedom and free enterprise flows through this fast-paced novel as fervently as her hero meets battle after battle to win a rightful place in his chosen profession.” John Anthony, CEO Sustainable Freedom Lab
“Dramatizing rampant corruption plaguing the United States and the rest of the world today, ADAMAS combines adventure, romance, suspense, history, courtroom drama, and political and business intrigue, with economic and political insights. Alexandra York's novel addresses contemporary issues through the lens of timeless values.”
S. T. Karnick, cultural analyst, book, magazine, and newspaper writer and editor; Director of Research, Heartland Institute
A double murder in New York City on New Year’s Eve sets in motion one young maverick diamond prospector’s determination to destroy the world-wide monopoly of the Consolidated Diamond Network’s stranglehold on the industry. Hiring a now-married former lover as his defense attorney, Randell “Rink” Garner fights for his life, his freedom, his revenge, and her love in this gripping drama of thrilling romantic-suspense that moves from The Amazon to South Africa to England to Canada and always within Manhattan’s singular world of intrigue and glamour that forever glitters as mesmerizing as the diamond itself.
". . . if these stones are tested upon an anvil, they resist blows to such an extent that an iron hammer may split in two and even the anvil itself may be displaced. Indeed, the hardness is indescribable. . . Adamas [diamond] derives its name from this property because, in its Greek meaning, it is an “indomitable force. . .“
—Pliny the Elder
“Dramatizing rampant corruption plaguing the United States and the rest of the world today, ADAMAS combines adventure, romance, suspense, history, courtroom drama, and political and business intrigue, with economic and political insights. Alexandra York's novel addresses contemporary issues through the lens of timeless values.”
S. T. Karnick, cultural analyst, book, magazine, and newspaper writer and editor; Director of Research, Heartland Institute
A double murder in New York City on New Year’s Eve sets in motion one young maverick diamond prospector’s determination to destroy the world-wide monopoly of the Consolidated Diamond Network’s stranglehold on the industry. Hiring a now-married former lover as his defense attorney, Randell “Rink” Garner fights for his life, his freedom, his revenge, and her love in this gripping drama of thrilling romantic-suspense that moves from The Amazon to South Africa to England to Canada and always within Manhattan’s singular world of intrigue and glamour that forever glitters as mesmerizing as the diamond itself.
". . . if these stones are tested upon an anvil, they resist blows to such an extent that an iron hammer may split in two and even the anvil itself may be displaced. Indeed, the hardness is indescribable. . . Adamas [diamond] derives its name from this property because, in its Greek meaning, it is an “indomitable force. . .“
—Pliny the Elder
309 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 19, 2016
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About the author
Alexandra York
12 books11 followersALEXANDRA YORK
Alexandra York presently draws from her multi-faceted background to focus on fiction as well as writing and lecturing on the arts and the culture.
In addition to authoring five nonfiction books (one a Book-of-the-Month Club selection), Alexandra has also been published in magazine and newspaper articles, book and movie reviews, and poetry. In other media, she both wrote and performed a bi-weekly feature on WPIX-TV Channel 11 Evening News in New York and wrote and hosted two different Talk Shows that tracked the contemporary performing arts for ABC Radio Network. As an author, she has been a guest on many major Talk Shows, including "The Today Show," "Larry King Live," "To Tell the Truth," "AM New York," "AM Los Angeles," "AM Philadelphia," "Wake-Up Houston," ABC's "Eyewitness News," and hundreds of local and syndicated radio shows. As a performer, she appeared (along with stage and film work) as principal actress in dozens of TV and radio commercials in America and Europe, culminating that aspect of her career in a year-long tour of the U.S. as an exclusive TV spokeswoman for Clairol,Inc. In person, she has lectured extensively at Town Hall Celebrity Series, private organizations, corporations, universities, and exclusive cruise ships.
Alexandra is published in England, Australia, Mexico, South America, Russia, and Spain, as well as the United States and Canada. Aside from her nonfiction books (Book-of-the-Month Club, Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, Van Nostrand, Ballantine and Berkley-Jove), her work has also appeared in publications as varied as Reader’s Digest (Domestic and International), Vital Speeches, The New York Times, USA Today, Vogue, New Woman, Chronicles, The Humanist, The Intellectual Activist, Reason, American Arts Quarterly, American Artist and Confrontation Literary Journal. She was for six years the Editor for ART Ideas, a quarterly arts and culture magazine published by American Renaissance for the Twenty-first Century (ART) a 501c3 New-York-City based nonprofit educational arts foundation of which she is the Founding President: www.ART-21.org
Alexandra received the 1997 Whiting Memorial Award for outstanding service to the cultural world from the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry. She is listed in Who’s Who of American Women and Who’s Who in America. Her latest book (2016) is titled ADAMAS 2016. With her husband, Barrett Randell, she divides her time between New York City, Bucks County, PA, and Vermont.
Alexandra York presently draws from her multi-faceted background to focus on fiction as well as writing and lecturing on the arts and the culture.
In addition to authoring five nonfiction books (one a Book-of-the-Month Club selection), Alexandra has also been published in magazine and newspaper articles, book and movie reviews, and poetry. In other media, she both wrote and performed a bi-weekly feature on WPIX-TV Channel 11 Evening News in New York and wrote and hosted two different Talk Shows that tracked the contemporary performing arts for ABC Radio Network. As an author, she has been a guest on many major Talk Shows, including "The Today Show," "Larry King Live," "To Tell the Truth," "AM New York," "AM Los Angeles," "AM Philadelphia," "Wake-Up Houston," ABC's "Eyewitness News," and hundreds of local and syndicated radio shows. As a performer, she appeared (along with stage and film work) as principal actress in dozens of TV and radio commercials in America and Europe, culminating that aspect of her career in a year-long tour of the U.S. as an exclusive TV spokeswoman for Clairol,Inc. In person, she has lectured extensively at Town Hall Celebrity Series, private organizations, corporations, universities, and exclusive cruise ships.
Alexandra is published in England, Australia, Mexico, South America, Russia, and Spain, as well as the United States and Canada. Aside from her nonfiction books (Book-of-the-Month Club, Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, Van Nostrand, Ballantine and Berkley-Jove), her work has also appeared in publications as varied as Reader’s Digest (Domestic and International), Vital Speeches, The New York Times, USA Today, Vogue, New Woman, Chronicles, The Humanist, The Intellectual Activist, Reason, American Arts Quarterly, American Artist and Confrontation Literary Journal. She was for six years the Editor for ART Ideas, a quarterly arts and culture magazine published by American Renaissance for the Twenty-first Century (ART) a 501c3 New-York-City based nonprofit educational arts foundation of which she is the Founding President: www.ART-21.org
Alexandra received the 1997 Whiting Memorial Award for outstanding service to the cultural world from the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry. She is listed in Who’s Who of American Women and Who’s Who in America. Her latest book (2016) is titled ADAMAS 2016. With her husband, Barrett Randell, she divides her time between New York City, Bucks County, PA, and Vermont.
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