Mobi D'Ark
ASIN: B00Q74RWUY
Publisher: Martin Andrew Bower
Pages: 95
The Bahrain Incident is an 8,000-word ‘whodunit’ set in Bahrain and Abu Dhabi in the early 1970’s. The tale commences in 2008, with a chance meeting between old colleagues in London, before flashing back to Abu Dhabi in the early 70’s - at a time when ‘Base Camp’, an oilfield caravan site way out in the desert, was the largest centre of habitation in the country.There, the mainly American expatriate oilfield workers enjoyed a ‘wild west’ type of existence. They worked hard, drank hard, played hard, and fought hard. When they went to nearby Bahrain for R&R, they also ‘screwed’ hard.The murder of a Seychelles prostitute, who worked in Bahrain, results in the arrest of Steve, a young Vietnam Vet, who had just flown back his job in Abu Dhabi after a few days off.The evidence pointing to him is overwhelming, but the oil company management are determined to get him released from the ...