Carter raised his palm toward the fire. “The fire is not hot,” he said.
“The stove is made of ceramic. You wait a bit for it to heat up.”
Carter looked disbelieving. Gabriel went to the window and looked down at the street just as a car slowly passed and disappeared around a nearby bend. Carter looked away from the fire and returned to his seat.
“There are many people in the Royal Family who are willing to play the game by different rules. We call them the Believers. They think that the only way the al-Saud family can survive is to renew the agreement signed with Muhammad Abdul Wahhad two centuries ago in Najd. But this contract must consider new realities. The monster the al-Saud family created two centuries ago now holds the cards, and the Believers are ready to give the monster what
