Black has it all. A renowned gemologist and former motorcycle racer turned Private Investigator, he's a certified bachelor whose cooking isn't confined to the kitchen. Look away and you'll miss him tearing through the five boroughs on his liquid-cooled BMW bike or in his Maserati Quatroport. Life is good. Until the world's largest black opal disappears. The owners, a consortium of former KGB turned mobsters, hire Black to recover the gem.His life will never be the same again.The hunt leads him from the comfort of his Upper East Side brownstone, smack into Montenegro, summer home to the Russian mafia; to the high-rolling casinos of Europe; to far away Australia, and then deep into the darkness that is North Korea. But Black's not alone. The NYPD detective assigned to the caper, an exotic Algerian beauty, has a stake in the case and is along for the ride. Love. You can't hide from it forever.Life may be precious. But the opal is worth more.
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