Blood and oil : Mohammed bin Salman's ruthless quest for global power
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Hachette Books,
New York :
2020.
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Thirty-five-year-old Mohammed bin Salman's sudden rise stunned the world. Political and business leaders such as former UK prime minister Tony Blair and WME chairman Ari Emanuel flew out to meet with the crown prince and came away convinced that his desire to reform the kingdom was sincere. He spoke passionately about bringing women into the workforce and toning down Saudi Arabia's restrictive Islamic law. He lifted the ban on women driving and explored investments in Silicon Valley. But MBS began to betray an erratic interior beneath the polish laid on by scores of consultants and public relations experts like McKinsey & Company. The allegations of his extreme brutality and excess began to slip out, including that he ordered the assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. While stamping out dissent by holding three hundred people, including prominent members of the Saudi royal family, in the Ritz-Carlton hotel and elsewhere for months, he continued to exhibit his extreme wealth, including buying a $70 million chateau in Europe and one of the world's most expensive yachts. It seemed that he did not understand nor care about how the outside world would react to his displays of autocratic muscle-what mattered was the flex. Blood and Oil is a gripping work of investigative journalism about one of the world's most decisive and dangerous new leaders. Hope and Scheck show how MBS's precipitous rise coincided with the fraying of the simple bargain that had been at the head of U.S.-Saudi relations for more than eighty years: oil in exchange for military protection. Caught in his net are well-known US bankers, Hollywood figures, and politicians, all eager to help the charming and crafty crown prince.
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- ISBN: 9780306846663
- Physical Description: xvii, 346 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), genealogical table ; 24 cm.print
- Publisher: New York : Hachette Books, 2020.
- General Note: Includes index.
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Āl Saʻūd, Muḥammad bin Salmān bin ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz,
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia,
1985-
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Āl Saʻūd, Muḥammad bin Salmān bin ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz,
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia,
1985- >
Family.
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Āl Saʻūd, House of
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State crimes >
Saudi Arabia >
History >
21st century.
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Saudi Arabia >
Kings and rulers >
Succession.
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Saudi Arabia >
Politics and government >
21st century.
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Saudi Arabia >
Foreign relations >
21st century.