Shaikh-Down

On the Persian Gulf island of Belaj, British air-hostesses and Egyptian belly-dancers are working overtime to relieve oversexed citizens of their frustrations and petrodollars. One of the punters is murdered: whisky-soaked publisher Farouk whose randy wife Nayla is a niece of the local despot, His Highness Shaikh Khaled bin Khalifa al-Khazi.

Newcomer Cass, an East London housewife, becomes a $500 hooker. Sammy-Jo, an American stewardess with page-3-girl boobs, and bisexual British banker Eddy are drawn into a plot by BARF (Belaj Armed Revolutionary Front) to assassinate Shaikh Khaled in a bizarre bedroom romp.

What happens after the coup? Will it be the Dawn of Democracy - or "Whoops Apocalypse"? (And what unnerving fate does the author predict for Muammar Gaddafi and other tyrannical Arab rulers?)
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“Witty, entertaining, raunchy and very well written.” Peter O’Donnell, creator of Modesty Blaise

“Ribald and politically incorrect. Set in a fictitious but absolutely believable Arab state where sheikhs and their minions are locked in a life-and-death struggle to survive the relentless move towards democracy. Entertaining.” Gay Times
“Probably a Zionist plot masterminded by the CIA to undermine the good image of morally irreproachable Gulf Arabs.” Gulf Times