Blood and Oil
Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power
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Peter Ganim
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Thirty-five-year-old Mohammed bin Salman's sudden rise stunned the world. Political and business leaders such as former 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 excess and about the brutality of his regime began to slip out. Then there was the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
While stamping out dissent in the Saudi royal family by holding 300 members in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel for months, he continued to exhibit his extreme wealth, including the purchase of 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 flexing of autocratic muscle.
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©2020 Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck (P)2020 Hachette AudioCritic Reviews
"Blood and Oil is the fascinating and highly entertaining tale of Mohammed bin Salman's rise to power. With fly-on-the-wall reporting and palace intrigue worthy of Machiavelli, it will keep you [rooted] until its tragic denouement. And more importantly, it will leave you with a deep and nuanced understanding of the Crown Prince's thinking and its implications for Saudi Arabia and the entire Middle East." (John Carreyrou, author of Bad Blood)
"This is as close to the truth, to the real story of the corruption, vulgarities, horrors, and lies of the Kingdom and its current despot as we are likely to get. It also can be read as a Shakespearean story of utter greed." (Seymour Hersh, author of Chain of Command)
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- Charlie
- 27-12-2020
Terrific book- highly recommend
I was recommended this book by a friend and it did not disappoint. Actually sad it finished, amazing resource to keep up to scratch with world affairs
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- Richard
- 03-11-2020
Gossipy and highly enjoyable
This is the salacious biography of MBS. It appears very well researched. Great insights into MBS but only very cursory coverage of broader Middle East politics. The narration was a bit droll.
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- Lindsay Cottee
- 04-12-2022
it opens a door to another world
this was a great listen. a must for anyone who wants to know the world
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- Anonymous User
- 01-11-2022
Crippling Bias
Unfortunately the writer suffers from an unreserved anti-Trump bias. This along with his cloying and sickening love of Obama colours the entire book and serves to make the reader question if anything he writes is true or if it is all just spin.
This could have been a great book if the writer could have placed their personal bias aside and just written from fact.
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