A Dubious Dream — Gerald J. Kubicki

In the third installment of the series, Colton Banyon is told to go to sleep. Wolf, his secret mentor and a spirit that he can talk to, tells him that he will narrate an unusual story about a Black Diamond. It is no ordinary diamond. It arrived on earth thousands of years ago and has the power to transfer energy to people. It can both give them super powers and also destroy them. It is both good and evil. Wolf tells Banyon that the Black Diamond has been stolen from a secure government facility and he must find it before it is too late. The story is the background that Banyon will need to understand the Black Diamond. Set in the early nineteen hundreds, the hero, Professor Adam Wesley discovers the history of the Black Diamond and sets off on it's trail in hopes of securing the diamond. He realizes it is too powerful for anyone, but there are many people that want it's power. For more than forty years he tracks the Black Diamond and discovers and meets a variety of historical people who have touched the diamond along the way, they all were affected. The real question becomes how has he been affected.