Ambition

Jamie McGregor is determined to be a rich man. Jamie gives up his shares in his family farm to travel halfway across the world to South Africa in order to search for diamonds. Jamie is young, naïve, and he believes the world is his for the taking. Jamie learns quickly, however, that he cannot trust anyone but himself. Jamie enters into a contract with the owner of a local store and is cheated. Jamie is beaten when he attempts to right this wrong and is left to die out in the desert. If not for the kindness of a native man, Jamie would have died. Jamie decides he must take revenge on this cruel man. Jamie steals diamonds and finances a rouse to trick the daughter of his enemy into becoming pregnant with his child. After ruining his enemy's reputation through his daughter, Jamie sets out to...