Gold and Princesses A Tale of Palaces

Gold and Princesses A Tale of Palaces is the fourth book in the Arabian Gulf series by the same author and follows some of the characters and some of the themes developed in the first three books which are entitled Hawks and Doves An Arabian Tale, Pearls and Princes A Tale of the Gulf and Oil and Sheikhs A Desert Tale. The action in this fast-paced thriller takes place in Saudi Arabia, The Yemen, Dubai, Iran, Muscat and Oman, Turkey, Slovakia, Russia, Switzerland, the USA and the UK. Gold-laundering of Ottoman gold from the First World War era and Nazi gold from the Second World War provide a focus for those who are seeking to prevent illegal gold from being traded on the London gold bullion market. Legends of the lost city of Ubar where gold and frankincense were plentiful, inspire an expedition to the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia. The quest by the Sunni Saudi Arabian government to deal a blow to the Shi'a on the Arabian Peninsula and to get their hands on the gold-rich resources of the Yemen, leads to an invasion of that country and an end to the Yemen Civil War.