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D.W. Layton

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As a young man Layton was greatly influenced by James Michener's The Drifters. Thus, after graduating from college he traveled the world. A vagabond. He ran with the bulls in Pamplona. He stomped grapes with his feet in Greece. He pulled giant crab pots off the floor of the Bering Sea.

After law school he attended Cambridge University in England where he obtained an advance degree in international law. After Cambridge he moved to Washington, D.C. where he worked in and out of government for over 35 years. During his career he practiced international law all over the world; often representing governments in disputes with other governments before the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

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“She pursed her lips and gently blew him a kiss he could not see or feel.”
― D.W. Layton, Otello's Oil: A Saga of Blood & Oil

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“For over 8,000 years the Nile River has slowly moved through Egypt on its steady march north to the Mediterranean Sea. The Greek historian Herodotus called Egypt "the Nile's gift to the world.”
― D.W. Layton, Otello's Oil: A Saga of Blood & Oil

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“A keen eye could tell the Russian was not a man of means. It wasn't his cheap suit that gave him away. It was his shoes. As the German philosopher Heidegger once said, "Shoes tell us all we need to know about the person who walks in them.”
― D.W. Layton, Otello's Oil: A Saga of Blood & Oil

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