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It's all about oil. If there was no oil the only expatriates in the Mid-East would be a few biblical scholars and archaeologists being driven mad by the heat, dust, flies and wily bureaucrats looking for baksheesh.

Since the 1960s Oil has been the new Great Game. A game made serious by the endless flow of petro-dollars and blood.

In the 1960s an idealistic young journalist is sent from the UK to The Gulf, and he finds an atavistic society as harsh and pitiless as the surrounding deserts. And he finds that the world of the foreign correspondent is mot like showbusiness than a serious profession trying to write as honestly as possible the first rough draft of history. And so begins his private war as he confronts corruption, hypocrisy and editorial indifference at every opportunity. It is a classic hero's journey,

The stories span more than 40 years and are are journalistic, featuring the strong but flawed characters who wash up The Gulf, trying to survive and prosper in a rapidly changing world. Ordinary people in extraordinary circum-stances.