Table of Contents
Prologue: Mined
April 1956 3
Part I Color
1 I Wasn't Born a Jewel Thief 11
2 Greed 17
3 My Declaration of War 25
4 Mr. Benjamin 33
Part II Clarity
5 Trickster in Practice 43
6 Finding My Way Out 48
7 My First Big Heist 61
8 Hot Ice, Cold Feet 68
9 Making Good on My Crimes 77
10 Taking Things to the Next Level 88
11 Racial Backfire 104
12 It's Who You Know, but You Don't Own Me 115
13 Family Ties and Known Associates 125
Part III Cut
14 Going International 137
15 Diamond Fever 156
16 Returning to Baby Jesus 174
17 Fault Line 181
18 Off My Game 186
19 Throwing Dust at Disaster 199
Part IV Carat
20 Snared 209
21 Telling People What They Want to Hear 223
22 Tokyo Diamonds and the Mohair Coat 229
23 The Long Game 235
24 Dry Snitches 249
25 Reckoning 254
Epilogue: DVVS
December 2018 265
Acknowledgments 267