Diamond is Paul F. Hammond's fourth historical novel. Mr. Hammond has enjoyed a lifetime of studying, reading and writing about American History. After a lengthy business career, he retired as a senior officer and principal of a national market research firm. He and his wife, Paige, live in Connecticut and the Bahamas. His three other historical novels include Interference!, a time travel adventure to British-occupied Newport, Rhode Island during the American Revolution; Isaac Rules, an account of a young first mate's survival on a nineteenth-century schooner facing piracy, a terrifying hurricane, weeks adrift at sea, and a profound test of faith; and The Saboteur, an account of a university student who escapes a World War I German U-boat during an attack on a small Cape Cod town, only to be confronted by poisonous anti-German sentiments and hunted by fanatical vigilantes.