A Race for Wealth by Richard Blacklee is about the life of Gary Bee’s third Great Uncle, the famous Barney Barnato, who was at one time the wealthiest man in South Africa. He built a house in Park Lane London second in size only to Buckingham Palace. He was one of the ‘Big Three’ who together with Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Beit pulled off the biggest company merger the world had ever known, to form De Beers Consolidated Mines. Barnato died under mysterious circumstances when he fell from a s