Dubai

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DUBAI
ROBIN MOORE
Robin Moore, whose mastery of sus-pense and adventure has produced two of the most phenomenally successful books of recent years — The French Connection and The Green Berets— turns here to the insurgencies and oil operations of the Middle East for a taut, chilling story.
Lieutenant Colonel James Fitzroy Lodd (Ret.) is a modern-day soldier of fortune whose misinterpreted Arab leanings have cost him his Army career, yet earned him the protection of Shaikh Rashid, ruler of the tiny oil shaikhdom of Dubai. From the back room of his semireputable establishment, the Ten Tola Bar, Lodd orchestrates somé high-risk business ventures guaranteed to parlay an Army pension into very high stakes: the smuggling of gold across the Arabian Sea to Bombay, the con-version of five hundred millión petro dollars into Arab control of the U.S. communications média, and a desper-ate attempt to break an international
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DUBAI
ROBIN MOORE
Robin Moore, whose mastery of sus-pense and adventure has produced two of the most phenomenally successful books of recent years — The French Connection and The Green Berets— turns here to the insurgencies and oil operations of the Middle East for a taut, chilling story.
Lieutenant Colonel James Fitzroy Lodd (Ret.) is a modern-day soldier of fortune whose misinterpreted Arab leanings have cost him his Army career, yet earned him the protection of Shaikh Rashid, ruler of the tiny oil shaikhdom of Dubai. From the back room of his semireputable establishment, the Ten Tola Bar, Lodd orchestrates somé high-risk business ventures guaranteed to parlay an Army pension into very high stakes: the smuggling of gold across the Arabian Sea to Bombay, the con-version of five hundred millión petro dollars into Arab control of the U.S. communications média, and a desper-ate attempt to break an international
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oil cartel that could cost Lodd every-thing . . . including the very beautiful woman he loves.
Moving from top echelon govern-ment and financial circles in New York and Washington, London, and Tehran to the wilds of the Arabian Peninsula, Dubai combines Robin Moore's usual thrilling ways with románcé and sus-pense with his specialized knowledge of the Middle East.
Robin Moore was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard College. He has served as European correspondent for the Boston Globe and worked as a television producer in New York City. Mr. Moore remains best known for his many novels, including Court Martial and The Fifth Estate, as well as The Frenoh Connection, The Green Berets, and The Happy Hooker, all of which were produced as motion pictures. Vissza