Plot Summary D

Olympus Mons on Mars is an extinct volcano and the largest known volcano in the solar system. It rises about 16.5 miles above the surface of the planet -- that's 3 times higher than commercial airliners fly. It is 372 miles from edge to edge at the base -- that's larger than the state of Washington. The crater in the centre is 40 miles wide from rim to rim.
The DeBeers Cartel controls about 70% of the world diamond trade. Debeers Lunar is a big part of Lunar Colony #7 as well. They have a big stake in the Mars colony and Malcon finds out very quickly just how big their stake in Mars and Olympus Mons is when he begins his journey to Mars from the moon. Diamonds are precious of course, and big diamonds are exceedingly rare. On earth and so too on Mars, big diamonds usually cost the owner in big ways. For example the Blue Hope Diamond found in South Africa was believed to carry a curse, two of the owners had their entire family die just one year apart.

Do Everett’s large-karat Mars diamonds carry a large curse of their own? Judging from the way they are discovered and the forced journey it takes to get them out, It appears that they indeed carry a curse with them. How many evil and deadly encounters await Everett Malcon on his forced quest to extract, then transport, the large precious stones back home to Lunar Colony #7? Read on to find out.