The sand men
By: Christopher Fowler
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781781083741; 9781781083734
Subjects: Gated communities; Foreign workers; British; Fiction
Description: In Dubai theres a new world of high-luxury resorts emerging for the super-rich but at what price to everyone else?

In Dubai, Lea, Roy and their daughter Cara live in a gated community reserved for foreign workers. Roy deals with problems at Dream World, a futuristic beach complex. Lea finds herself a virtual prisoner in a land where Western women are regarded with indifference and suspicion. When an outspoken ex-pat dies in a suspicious accident, it's the first in a string of terrible occurrences that divide the foreign workers. What happens in a world where only the rich are important... and where rebellion against conformity can lead to the unthinkable....