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This is About... a hunt for buried treasure, and the terrible truth it unearths. When an Israeli ex-detective hears about a bag of looted diamonds, hidden during World War II on the French/German border, he decides to go and find them. In his search, Yaron Svoray discovers something far more disturbing. It will take all his detective skills, and his best Australian accent, to infiltrate a world that should have been buried with the war.

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