The desert contract
Subtitle: a novel
By: John Lathrop
Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781416567936
Subjects: Americans; Fiction
Description: Fired from his job in L.A. and divorced from his wife,Steve Kemp returns to the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia where finds himself falling back in love with Helen -- the Irishwoman he'd left more than a decade before. Kemp and Helen rekindle their affair and as the country plunges into violent political crisis, Kemp focuses on financing his escape with Helen. All he needs is one last big sale -- their contract out. And the terms may be more ambiguous -- and more dangerous -- than Kemp had thought.