Shaikh-Down
On the Persian Gulf island of Belaj Egyptian belly-dancers and British flight attendants are working overtime to relieve some of the wealthier citizens of their frustrations – and their petro-dollars.
One of the punters is murdered: whisky-soaked publisher Farouk whose nymphomaniac wife Nayla is a niece of the local despot, His Highness Shaikh Khalid bin Khalifa al-Khazi. Farouk’s murder is the first ‘rumble’ of an earthquake that will shake Belaj (and all Arabia) to its foundations.
Newcomer Cass, an East London housewife, becomes a $500 hooker. Pneumatic American stewardess Sammy-Jo and bisexual British banker Eddy are drawn into a plot by BARF (the Belaj Armed Revolutionary Front) to assassinate the Amir in a steamy bedroom romp.
But what happens after the coup, as the Arab World gets its first female President? Will it be the Dawn of Democracy – or “Whoops, Apocalypse”?
And how does the New World Order come to install Ann Widdecombe in 10 Downing Street?
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Hit the links, above, to read Extracts from the book and to find out what Ms Widdecombe had to say about inheriting the keys to 10 Downing Street. There’s another comic Extract on the Shaikh-Down Blog, where you can also read about a Disappearance in Bahrain when David Gee was working there, an event which, in the novel, triggers a cataclysm.