Author’s noteThe storyline, as well as all characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to any real events or persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
I have really enjoyed writing this first book and would like to thank my mother Joan and my wife Carolyn for their encour-agement, support and patience. Also my children Alexander, Henry, Issie, Max and Tilly and their cousins (Jamie, Will, Char-lie, Harry, Hugh, Thomas and Katie) whose eagerness to hear my bedtime stories prompted me to write a book in the first place…
It is no coincidence that a lot of the book is centred on the Middle East where I first came to live in 1973. My family lives in one of the most exciting and dynamic places in the world - Dubai. We have many friends here and I would like to expres
