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The Saudi Connection: A Novel [Bargain Price] [Hardcover]

Jack Anderson (Author), Robert Westbrook (Author)
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July 11, 2006
After having to hand back his Pulitzer Prize due to a massive cover-up scandal, Ron Wright's reputation as a journalist with the Washington Post crashed and burned, taking his marriage with it. Despite being out of the game, Ron never lost his nose for trouble. And as all good reporters know, sometimes trouble has a tendency of getting the scoop on you instead of the other way around.
After receiving a cryptic message from an old friend, Ron takes the first train from Washington D.C. to New York City--and quickly finds himself in a deadly chase after a friend and long-trusted news source ends up dead in a mysterious accident near his home in Paris. Wright, thrust into the lead of a lifetime key, must connect this bizarre turn of events to unlock one of the most cover-up secrets of the modern era: Saudi Arabian royalty has long provided funding for a powerful group in America . . . funds that have been accumulating to launch the single most vicious attack on American soil.
Beginning in France and stretching across the Middle East, Ron Wright, must enlist the help of a beautiful journalist from Al-Jazeera, to uncover the story of the century. Dodging the hail of flying bullets, running from international terrorists, and doing his best to escape those who would stop his story from ever reaching print, Ron Wright - who used to feel the most comfortable behind a computer - now finds himself under the gun...and the term "deadline" may soon have a whole new meaning.
(12/12/2005)

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In this engaging novel of Middle East intrigue from Anderson, who died in 2005, and Westbrook (Ancient Enemy), muckraking journalist Ron Wright is in disgrace after his Pulitzer Prize–winning article on big pharmaceuticals was revealed to be based on made-up information. Ron is the victim, but he can't prove it, so he's reduced to ghosting stories for successful Washington columnist Nat Cunningham. When an old colleague from Egypt, Hany Farabi, gives Ron a hot tip for a story, he realizes he's onto a political bombshell that could very well lead to his professional rehabilitation. The wife of the Saudi ambassador may have secretly given $20 million to an American white supremacist group, the White Brotherhood of Christian Patriots. In short order, Hany and Nat are dead, and Ron is off to Paris and the Middle East, where he meets Hany's journalist sister, Nevver, with whom he chases this increasingly deadly story. It's a solid plot, but the prickly relationship between the humorous, indefatigable Ron and beautiful, opinionated Nevver keeps readers going until the expected but satisfying climax. (July)
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Ron Wright, a disgraced newspaper columnist, gets a tip involving the wife of the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. Then his old friend, who gave him the tip, dies suspiciously, and Ron, with the help of a lovely Al-Jazeera journalist, is hot on the trail of a story so big that breaking it very nearly breaks him. Combining the knowledge of veteran journalist Anderson with the storytelling skills of veteran novelist Westbrook, the book delivers plenty of action. Wright is a sympathetic character, and the story, which revolves around a group of American supremacists and their foreign backers, is timely and effectively constructed. David Pitt
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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Forge Books (July 11, 2006)
  • ISBN-10: 0765311445
  • ASIN: B001G8W6WK
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,245,094 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Premise, but disappointing results, April 20, 2010
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This novel has all the makings of a decent story, a disgraced journalist clawing his way back, a soft-hearted colleague who maintains a rough exterior for cover, and a story line that would, one think, have best-seller status written all over it.
Sadly, the writing falls flat and the story line because trite and worse, unbelievable. The author(s) needed to spend more time developing not only their plot, but their characters. A real disappointment.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Perfectly Ordinary and Uninspired, September 7, 2006
This plot of this poorly constructed thriller can be figured out from reading the liner notes. Each chapter is a cliffhanger and setup for the next destination, as the protagonist and his obligatory girlfriend hop around Europe and the Middle East in chase of Arab Terrorists who have teamed up with White Supremicists in Colorado to assinate a presidential candidate who wants to turn off Saudi Arabian oil. A pleasant way to pass a free hours on the train, but wholly unoriginal and uninspired, obviously written by the Ghostwriter. Poor Jack Anderson will not be remembered for this one.
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I SPOTTED MY tail about twenty minutes after the train pulled out of Union Station, making the morning run from D.C. to NYC. Read the first page
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Saudi Arabia, New York, White Brotherhood, Middle East, Secret Service, Princess Najla, Empty Quarter, Prince Mishaal, The Spindle, Ron Wright, Saudi Embassy, Colonel Omar, Freddie Morrison, Nat Cunningham, Gulf of Aqaba, Brown Palace, Democratic National Convention, Lola La Lala, Pete Gibson, The Washington Post, United States, Central Park, Red Sea, Pulitzer Prize, Seth Christensen
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