The Sheik Author:Maggie Davis Money won't buy happiness, but it will buy banks, customized jets, and all the fabulous trappings of the lives of today's powerful Arab oil billionaires. — Sheik Abdullah al Asmari, twenty-three, Yale educated and spoiled, is suddenly thrust into the temptations of Hollywood and New York when his grandfather, the Emir of Rahsmani, sends h... more »im to the United States on an important bank-buying mission. Abdullah is caught up in the sumptious and riotous life of the super-rich in California. But danger and intrigue intrude, revolution breaks out in Rahsmani, and Abdullah is plunged into real peril.
This is the dazzlingly authentic and suspense-filled story of the coming of age of a young sheik, lavish with local color and insight into today's amazing oil-rich Arab world.« less