Diamonds For Death: Sharon O'Mara Book Five is an international thriller written by Gregory C. Randall. While this is book 5 in the series, the author gives enough background for this novel to be read on its own. Sharon is independently wealthy now, thanks to the bequest of her friend and former client, Alain Dumont, but she's still intrigued by the story of Eddy Mendez, a baseball scout and close friend of Toribio Rodriquez. Mendez had been instrumental in Rodriquez' defection from Cuba, but his promise he made to the baseball player about getting his family out of Cuba had been impossible to fulfill. When Toro defected, his wife, mother and young son were secretly removed from their lodgings, and they became the unwilling guests at a coffee plantation owned by a corrupt Cuban official. It's been ten years now since the family was together, and Sharon agrees to help get them reunited.

Gregory C. Randall's international thriller, Diamonds For Death: Sharon O'Mara Book Five, is an exciting and fast-paced story that follows Sharon and her friend, ex-cop Kevin, as they embark on different projects which turn out to have threads in common. I enjoyed both Kevin's travels in England and his efforts to protect the diamond shipment and Sharon's Cuban adventure, but the real stars of this book for me were the baseball players. Randall's descriptions of Toro at bat are superb -- one really gets the feeling of being there in the stadium. The Iraq flashback sequences were also vivid and moving. Diamonds For Death: Sharon O'Mara Book Five is recommended reading for thriller fans.

Diamonds For Death: Sharon O'Mara Book Five is the continuation of the dynamic team of Lieutenant Sharon O'Mara and Kevin Bryan. O'Mara is now financially successful after a series of lucky breaks and decisions, but her life is still action packed with high profile, dangerous jobs. She is enlisted to help the great Cuban baseball player for the San Francisco Giants, Toribio Rodriquez, get his mother, his wife, and son out of Cuba. When he defected to the United States after being recruited by a popular Cuban baseball player, Eduardo Mendez, his family were taken away and hidden for nearly a decade. Bryan, in turn, has been offered a job in London in a case involving millions of dollars of jewelry. In a weird twist of fate, both their cases are intertwined with Marta De La Vega, who works with the Cuban baseball teams to help stop Cubans from escaping their team. De La Vega is involved in the high stacks trafficking of Cuban tobacco, the movement of arms, and diamonds. With the help of some past allies and buddies, O'Mara sets off to Cuba to free Rodriguez's family from De La Vega's work camp.

Author Gregory C. Randall writes his O'Mara series with a lot of rapport and camaraderie between the protagonist/heroine Sharon O'Mara and her partner in crime, Kevin Bryan - along with past friends Bobby Gillis and others. This is an action packed series that has an unlikely heroine with a military past with two tours in the Middle East to lead the action. This series is very entertaining, combining baseball with intrigue and suspense. I recommend this series to both men and women!