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A conspiracy buried beneath desert sands,
… a hunted man with a dangerous secret
It is 1994. Geologist Benjamin Bone has lost his wife, his income, and his sense of direction. So when he lands an interview with a wealthy American oil company to oversee the drilling of a multi-million dollar well in a remote wadi on the Yemeni plateau, it feels like salvation.
Backed by a powerful investor, the company claims it is on the brink of a major oil discovery. But the numbers don’t add up, the geology seems wrong. And the deeper Benjamin digs, the clearer it becomes. What he had hoped would rebuild his life is a dangerous game of corporate corruption and ruthless political ambition.
And now he knows too much.
Framed for murder, hunted by unknown enemies, he has only one chance to find the truth; in Yemen, a country fractured, volatile, and sliding towards civil war.
And the person who can get him there is travel agent Natalya Cheung, the woman he has fallen for, the only person he trusts. But when she learns the truth about the past he has tried to hide, she wants nothing more to do with him.
Alone, desperate, running out of time, Benjamin needs to uncover the mysteries buried beneath the desert sands of Yemen, before the people hunting him silence him for ever.
Fans of tense, atmospheric political thrillers will be gripped by this high-stakes chase through a land where alliances shift like dunes and anarchy is never far away.
From author Michael R Smith: ‘The Stream lost in the Sand’ is Michael’s first novel. It centres on Benjamin Bone, a geologist drawn into a conspiracy in the Republic of Yemen that has profound and far-reaching geopolitical consequences. The novel combines Michael’s technical expertise with a compelling narrative sense for tension and human endurance.
