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The daring robbery of an uninsured London Art Gallery causes its co-owner, Mounsey, Earl of Hunterdown to bully his young American partner, Zacharias Hutchinson, into attempting recovery.
The trail leads honest unworldly Zach via Paris and the French Riviera to Arabia where he is swept into a vortex of power, corruption, and sex as Saudi Arabia confronts Iraq.
Against the background of the Middle East preparing for war Zach finds his true character, love and riches as Royal Sand builds steadily to a dramatic and unexpected climax.
The novel is loosly based on the author's experiences while he lived and worked in Arabia for ten years.
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Royal Sand
Middle Eastern factional thriller. An English aristocrat forces his young American partner, Zach, to attempt recovery of stolen Royal Gold. The trail leads from London via Paris and the French Riviera to Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Morocco and into a vortex of power, money, corruption and sex. Participating in the Boeing and BAE Royal bribery scandal he witnesses Saudi Arabia's 1980's installation of Chinese supersonic missiles and still secret warheads. Set against the background of the Middle East on the eve of the first Gulf War Royal Sand builds steadily to a dramatic and unexpected climax.
The author lived and worked in Saudi Arabia for ten years. He was instrumental in the removal of Monsanto and Ford from the Arab blacklist, is President Emeritus of a major American Medical College, an Honorary Doctor of Science, flew solo to most countries of Latin America distributing the Washington Post News Service and newsprint for the company he headed, and was a syndicated journalist. Royal Sand is his third novel.
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