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Long Change
Don Gillmor's brilliant new novel, Long Change, examines the world of oil through the life and loves of one man; both stories are epic.
Fleeing his violent, Pentecostal father, as well as a crime he committed in the parking lot of the first bar he ever entered, Ritt Devlin leaves Texas at fifteen, crossing the border into Alberta. Big for his age, he soon finds work on an oil rig on the outskirts of Medicine Hat. But that's not the life he wants, and he saves up to study geology. By the time he's in his early twenties he's the head of his own oil company.
Spanning almost seventy years, and following the geology and politics of oil from Texas to the Canadian oil patch, to Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Azerbaijan, various political capitals, and the Arctic, Long Change is divided into three parts, each of them framed by one of Ritt's marriages. The first, to his great love, Oda, shows the beginnings of his company; that marriage is cut short when Oda dies of cancer while carrying their first child. His second wife is Deirdre, an elegant lawyer who helps Ritt expand Mackenzie Oil, but who needs more than business from her marriage. Then there is Alexa, a late middle age fling, a bad idea on both sides, in some ways as violent and delusional as the oil business.
The vision that drives Ritt throughout his life is to drill in pristine Arctic waters, and he pulls it off. But then comes the inevitable disaster. Ritt, now in his eighties, is not the man he was in any sense of the word. As he staggers away from the scene of the disaster, through the Arctic night, we know the dream of oil and of his own company is also burning in the night...
Fleeing his violent, Pentecostal father, as well as a crime he committed in the parking lot of the first bar he ever entered, Ritt Devlin leaves Texas at fifteen, crossing the border into Alberta. Big for his age, he soon finds work on an oil rig on the outskirts of Medicine Hat. But that's not the life he wants, and he saves up to study geology. By the time he's in his early twenties he's the head of his own oil company.
Spanning almost seventy years, and following the geology and politics of oil from Texas to the Canadian oil patch, to Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Azerbaijan, various political capitals, and the Arctic, Long Change is divided into three parts, each of them framed by one of Ritt's marriages. The first, to his great love, Oda, shows the beginnings of his company; that marriage is cut short when Oda dies of cancer while carrying their first child. His second wife is Deirdre, an elegant lawyer who helps Ritt expand Mackenzie Oil, but who needs more than business from her marriage. Then there is Alexa, a late middle age fling, a bad idea on both sides, in some ways as violent and delusional as the oil business.
The vision that drives Ritt throughout his life is to drill in pristine Arctic waters, and he pulls it off. But then comes the inevitable disaster. Ritt, now in his eighties, is not the man he was in any sense of the word. As he staggers away from the scene of the disaster, through the Arctic night, we know the dream of oil and of his own company is also burning in the night...
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368 pages, Hardcover
First published August 18, 2015
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Don Gillmor
32 books36 followersAuthor and journalist Don Gillmor was born in Fort Frances, Ontario in 1959 and presently lives in Toronto, Ontario. Don possesses a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Calgary. He has worked for publisher John Wiley & Sons, and has written for a number of magazines including Rolling Stone, GQ, Premiere, and Saturday Night.; where he was made a contributing editor in 1989.
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December 20, 2022
“Oil was civilization’s subtext …”
“… but it was showing its age, dirty and unwanted, an ancient embarrassment farting in the parlor.”
Ritt Devlin, born in 1950s Texas, fled a brutal Pentecostal father and what he thought was a crime of his own when he was only 15. He found his place in the oil rigs of Medicine Hat, Alberta, and was the owner of his own oil company at the precocious age of early 20 something. LONG CHANGE is the story of Devlin’s rise and fall and his birth and death.
Told in the sweeping narrative style that will be familiar to readers who have enjoyed Jeffrey Archer’s or Ken Follett’s multi-generational family sagas, Gillmor’s brilliant novel can be characterized as a dirty, disgusting, disturbing and often terrifying diatribe against the results of the world’s dependence on fossil fuels. The over-riding theme of the tale is clearly that capitalists, (in particular, those of the “oil man” variety) care for nothing but themselves and their pocket books. Their own families, their environment and the health and the welfare of their employees, their friends and even their own families barely merit a blip as the radar of their over-reaching greed sweeps everything around them. Like the protagonist, Meursault, in Camus’s existential classic, L'ÉTRANGER, Devlin seems a passive and oddly detached, disinterested observer of the progress of his own life … that is, in every respect save the status of his murky, multi-layered and often nefarious corporate holdings.
An example or two of Gillmor’s graphic prose will demonstrate his command of the use of stunning similes and metaphors to convey his themes. Gillmor had this to say on the vagaries of Calgary’s economy as it weathered the effects of wild swings in oil prices while retaining its misguided and meaningless love and valuation of all things capitalist:
“The price of West Texas Intermediate had dropped to $8 a barrel. If the city reflected this fact, if the downtown could physically manifest what was happening in the oil patch, it would look like Dresden in 1945. A smoking ruin, dazed survivors searching through the debris for food and loved ones. This precipitous drop meant the end of whatever Christmas bonuses had survived the last dip, of expense account dinners that had just crept back into four figures, of buying allegedly important art for lobby walls, of $57,000 kitchen renos, of negotiating naming rights. It meant another round of layoffs, cutbacks, divorce proceedings, unclaimed Western bronzes, unleased Porsches, a time of renegotiated mortgages and dumped season tickets. Eight dollar oil was shaking this city like a terrier with a rat in its teeth.”
His disdain (and, dare I say it, well-founded fear) for the USA and its imperialist, capitalist bent continues to shine brilliantly in this snippet of conversation between Devlin and a Russian “businessman”:
“So Russia [is] not really a country. Neither is Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Chechnya. But here is the news. US is not really a country either. Oil companies are the new countries. They were in Banku with you, negotiating as nations. Conoco is a country. Aramco, Total, Exxon. These are the new countries. They have armies, they sign treaties, they go to war. The rest of America is car salesmen and film stars and fat children.”
And I wouldn’t want to give you the impression that Gillmor’s cleverness was restricted to political commentary. How’s this for a blistering, description of morning after regrets following a one-night stand?
“Somewhere Tatiana was sleeping or not sleeping, regretting her actions perhaps, already burying them with all the minor stupidities we accumulate. Waking beside a man she will re-assess in the sickly light of day, realizing he isn’t as interesting or handsome as she had thought. That maybe his only attribute was he was a good listener (and maybe he wasn’t even really listening) and that she had paid for that relatively scarce skill with drunken sex. Then either a hasty exit, or bad coffee in a crummy apartment with a mannish empty fridge. Or a late breakfast at a greasy spoon, her indiscretion softened by the clamour around them.”
At once, powerful and moving, LONG CHANGE is also disturbing, frightening and disheartening. Today’s Trump and the Republicans in his administration don’t make it any easier to swallow.
Highly recommended.
Paul Weiss
“… but it was showing its age, dirty and unwanted, an ancient embarrassment farting in the parlor.”
Ritt Devlin, born in 1950s Texas, fled a brutal Pentecostal father and what he thought was a crime of his own when he was only 15. He found his place in the oil rigs of Medicine Hat, Alberta, and was the owner of his own oil company at the precocious age of early 20 something. LONG CHANGE is the story of Devlin’s rise and fall and his birth and death.
Told in the sweeping narrative style that will be familiar to readers who have enjoyed Jeffrey Archer’s or Ken Follett’s multi-generational family sagas, Gillmor’s brilliant novel can be characterized as a dirty, disgusting, disturbing and often terrifying diatribe against the results of the world’s dependence on fossil fuels. The over-riding theme of the tale is clearly that capitalists, (in particular, those of the “oil man” variety) care for nothing but themselves and their pocket books. Their own families, their environment and the health and the welfare of their employees, their friends and even their own families barely merit a blip as the radar of their over-reaching greed sweeps everything around them. Like the protagonist, Meursault, in Camus’s existential classic, L'ÉTRANGER, Devlin seems a passive and oddly detached, disinterested observer of the progress of his own life … that is, in every respect save the status of his murky, multi-layered and often nefarious corporate holdings.
An example or two of Gillmor’s graphic prose will demonstrate his command of the use of stunning similes and metaphors to convey his themes. Gillmor had this to say on the vagaries of Calgary’s economy as it weathered the effects of wild swings in oil prices while retaining its misguided and meaningless love and valuation of all things capitalist:
“The price of West Texas Intermediate had dropped to $8 a barrel. If the city reflected this fact, if the downtown could physically manifest what was happening in the oil patch, it would look like Dresden in 1945. A smoking ruin, dazed survivors searching through the debris for food and loved ones. This precipitous drop meant the end of whatever Christmas bonuses had survived the last dip, of expense account dinners that had just crept back into four figures, of buying allegedly important art for lobby walls, of $57,000 kitchen renos, of negotiating naming rights. It meant another round of layoffs, cutbacks, divorce proceedings, unclaimed Western bronzes, unleased Porsches, a time of renegotiated mortgages and dumped season tickets. Eight dollar oil was shaking this city like a terrier with a rat in its teeth.”
His disdain (and, dare I say it, well-founded fear) for the USA and its imperialist, capitalist bent continues to shine brilliantly in this snippet of conversation between Devlin and a Russian “businessman”:
“So Russia [is] not really a country. Neither is Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Chechnya. But here is the news. US is not really a country either. Oil companies are the new countries. They were in Banku with you, negotiating as nations. Conoco is a country. Aramco, Total, Exxon. These are the new countries. They have armies, they sign treaties, they go to war. The rest of America is car salesmen and film stars and fat children.”
And I wouldn’t want to give you the impression that Gillmor’s cleverness was restricted to political commentary. How’s this for a blistering, description of morning after regrets following a one-night stand?
“Somewhere Tatiana was sleeping or not sleeping, regretting her actions perhaps, already burying them with all the minor stupidities we accumulate. Waking beside a man she will re-assess in the sickly light of day, realizing he isn’t as interesting or handsome as she had thought. That maybe his only attribute was he was a good listener (and maybe he wasn’t even really listening) and that she had paid for that relatively scarce skill with drunken sex. Then either a hasty exit, or bad coffee in a crummy apartment with a mannish empty fridge. Or a late breakfast at a greasy spoon, her indiscretion softened by the clamour around them.”
At once, powerful and moving, LONG CHANGE is also disturbing, frightening and disheartening. Today’s Trump and the Republicans in his administration don’t make it any easier to swallow.
Highly recommended.
Paul Weiss
August 29, 2015
To be honest, I don’t know what it was about this book that attracted me when I read the review invite from Random House. Don Gillmor may be a Canadian household name, but I haven’t read any of his book. Moreover, oil is something that doesn’t really appeal to me. The only thing I know about it is, just like money, it’s a necessary evil. It turns out, the industry is that much interesting that I ended up devouring this book in one weekend!
Long Change is the story of one man’s life and loves as it correlates with the dog-eat-dog world of the oil business. Some could argue that his life was dictated by whichever way the oil flows. From the dry heat of Texas, to the frozen tundra of Alberta; and even as far away as the perilous remoteness of Africa, Ritt Devlin’s life was an up and down roller coaster of triumphs and failures.
He escaped the clutches of his abusive, religious father at a young age of 17 in the 50s. From there, he worked in an oilfield in Abilene, Texas. He found himself on the run from the law after an altercation with a group of men looking for trouble. From Texas, he made his way to Alberta where the oil business was just getting off the ground. He also met his great love, Oda. A tall, bookish woman who would show him the love of outdoors and the love of books.
Through the years, he’ll experience great successes and disappointments. And yet even with all that, Ritt kept a cool disposition; never losing his temper or straying away from his goal. He had a way of distancing himself from situations – however minute, or consequential it may be. I almost felt like one of the women that passed by his life after Oda. When he didn’t seem to feel a smidgeon of remorse for not trying hard enough to make a relationship work.
Ritt Devlin has a very passionate relationship with Geology. He understood it, he respected it, and he more or less took advantage of it. Even still, I rooted for him. I wanted him to find the ultimate success that eluded him. This novel had me in its grips. It’s not a suspenseful read, but the power of Gillmor’s writing is that he captures the readers from the first page. He had me interested in an industry that I hate but could not live without. The plot moved steadily, but with relentless passion. Passion in Ritt’s relationships – personal, business, and more importantly, with the land.
Long Change is the story of one man’s life and loves as it correlates with the dog-eat-dog world of the oil business. Some could argue that his life was dictated by whichever way the oil flows. From the dry heat of Texas, to the frozen tundra of Alberta; and even as far away as the perilous remoteness of Africa, Ritt Devlin’s life was an up and down roller coaster of triumphs and failures.
He escaped the clutches of his abusive, religious father at a young age of 17 in the 50s. From there, he worked in an oilfield in Abilene, Texas. He found himself on the run from the law after an altercation with a group of men looking for trouble. From Texas, he made his way to Alberta where the oil business was just getting off the ground. He also met his great love, Oda. A tall, bookish woman who would show him the love of outdoors and the love of books.
Through the years, he’ll experience great successes and disappointments. And yet even with all that, Ritt kept a cool disposition; never losing his temper or straying away from his goal. He had a way of distancing himself from situations – however minute, or consequential it may be. I almost felt like one of the women that passed by his life after Oda. When he didn’t seem to feel a smidgeon of remorse for not trying hard enough to make a relationship work.
Ritt Devlin has a very passionate relationship with Geology. He understood it, he respected it, and he more or less took advantage of it. Even still, I rooted for him. I wanted him to find the ultimate success that eluded him. This novel had me in its grips. It’s not a suspenseful read, but the power of Gillmor’s writing is that he captures the readers from the first page. He had me interested in an industry that I hate but could not live without. The plot moved steadily, but with relentless passion. Passion in Ritt’s relationships – personal, business, and more importantly, with the land.
July 13, 2015
I won this book as a good reads giveaway. It is an advance copy of the book that is due to come out next month. It was a good book. I liked the variety of characters in it. It was a well written book.
August 25, 2015
I received a copy of Don Gillmor's "Long Change" compliments of Goodreads Firstreads Giveaway and appreciated the opportunity.
The author shares the fictional portrayal of oil baron, Ritt Devlin, during the industry's boom and bust eras from the 1950's-2014. Beginning in America's proud state of Texas, a crime of defense leads Devlin to start a new life and name for himself in the Alberta oil-sands. The petroleum industry in unforgiving as Devlin navigates through the clashes for wealth and power. The struggles and triumphs that Devlin faces are introduced alongside the reflections of his three marriages, all distinct and influential. Devlin holds keen intuition and a knowledge for geology, an asset in this cut throat business where reputation can harbor risk.
This is smart writing that flows at a fast pace, captures your interest and keeps the pages turning. Notable character building that encompasses the raw emotions that exist across a tangled web of relationships. There is a certain level of mystery and intrigue that surrounds the main character. It pushes the reader to crave more insight into who he truly is and what motivates his actions.
This is an intellectual version of "Dallas" meets Canada! A 4/5 rating with recommendation for anyone seeking a closer view into the drama that surrounds the evolution of the oil industry.
The author shares the fictional portrayal of oil baron, Ritt Devlin, during the industry's boom and bust eras from the 1950's-2014. Beginning in America's proud state of Texas, a crime of defense leads Devlin to start a new life and name for himself in the Alberta oil-sands. The petroleum industry in unforgiving as Devlin navigates through the clashes for wealth and power. The struggles and triumphs that Devlin faces are introduced alongside the reflections of his three marriages, all distinct and influential. Devlin holds keen intuition and a knowledge for geology, an asset in this cut throat business where reputation can harbor risk.
This is smart writing that flows at a fast pace, captures your interest and keeps the pages turning. Notable character building that encompasses the raw emotions that exist across a tangled web of relationships. There is a certain level of mystery and intrigue that surrounds the main character. It pushes the reader to crave more insight into who he truly is and what motivates his actions.
This is an intellectual version of "Dallas" meets Canada! A 4/5 rating with recommendation for anyone seeking a closer view into the drama that surrounds the evolution of the oil industry.
April 25, 2023
Long Change brings its readers inside the turmoil (no pun intended) of the oil market, and it does a pretty good job in doing so. Gillmor’s writing style is smooth and enjoyable, even striking at times.
I did not think that I could root for a character working in the oil business, however, Gillmor did such an incredible job with the development of Ritt that you cannot not feel for him and while Gillmor manages to have you incredibly aware of the evilness of such business, you inevitably want Ritt to succeed. His passion and love for geology are both fascinating and endearing and makes for a truly likeable character.
However, seeing Gillmor’s talent for developing characters, I did feel let down by the treatment of all the women in this book. Even Oda, Ritt’s great love, is barely characterised - a shame considering the impact she had on Ritt’s life and personality.
All in all, a great book that I would recommend to anyone even slightly interested in the hated but needed oil industry.
I did not think that I could root for a character working in the oil business, however, Gillmor did such an incredible job with the development of Ritt that you cannot not feel for him and while Gillmor manages to have you incredibly aware of the evilness of such business, you inevitably want Ritt to succeed. His passion and love for geology are both fascinating and endearing and makes for a truly likeable character.
However, seeing Gillmor’s talent for developing characters, I did feel let down by the treatment of all the women in this book. Even Oda, Ritt’s great love, is barely characterised - a shame considering the impact she had on Ritt’s life and personality.
All in all, a great book that I would recommend to anyone even slightly interested in the hated but needed oil industry.
September 17, 2024
The best word I can think to describe this book is dull. I didn't care about the protagonist at all, so it made it hard to care about the rest of the story. It was decent up until he started travelling the world in search of new places to conquer. Then I lost all interest. I can't even say anything that bad against the book - it was just boring. I thought it could have ended after he got shot. Or at the end of any chapter thereafter.
Gillmor wasn't even able to make a convincing case for why Ritt married Alex - aside from when they first met, it didn't seem like they had much of a relationship. She was a very ill-defined, one-note character. And I find when writers describe the cliche of dinner party talk, they're really just showing off how superior they themselves feel to the average person. The long descriptions of fund-raising dinners, dinner parties, etc. just dragged on and on, and the metaphor of Ritt's life as geological periods was very laboured.
Just a dull, dull book. Reading this was the equivalent of suffering through one of the dinner parties that Gillmor describes.
Gillmor wasn't even able to make a convincing case for why Ritt married Alex - aside from when they first met, it didn't seem like they had much of a relationship. She was a very ill-defined, one-note character. And I find when writers describe the cliche of dinner party talk, they're really just showing off how superior they themselves feel to the average person. The long descriptions of fund-raising dinners, dinner parties, etc. just dragged on and on, and the metaphor of Ritt's life as geological periods was very laboured.
Just a dull, dull book. Reading this was the equivalent of suffering through one of the dinner parties that Gillmor describes.
June 18, 2019
Well told novel that makes the background info on some of the recent history of oil more interesting than it should be.
December 27, 2020
Oil man story, travels around the World.
November 12, 2016
The transnational oil industry has reshaped the world economy, impacted Canadian society and threatens to devastate our climate. Yet it remains an arcane sub-culture, distant from most people and driven by geological and corporate forces that are mysteries to most of us.
Don Gillmor gives us a driven novel that provides significant insights into the industry and its dynamics, even as it traces out the drama of one man's life and loves amid the wells, derricks and pipelines of the petro-world. Ritt Devlin is an original character, a 15-year old refugee from Texas escaping a harsh family background and the possible death of an opponent in a fight, who comes to Alberta as oil is beginning to gush, and ends up building his own company with ties to the Arctic, Africa and northern Russia. He is also something of a romantic, as his three marriages trace out over the course of his life -- a man whose love affairs are fraught with passion but also tragedy.
The panorama of petro politics and economics in this book is sweeping, informative and penetrating in terms of environmental understanding of the dangers of uncontrolled expansion of this industry. For Canadians, too, there are some interesting reminders of the way this country's 1982 National Energy Program restructured the oil sector, giving Canadians much more ownership and control than in the past. There is also a chapter where Ritt visits Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea in Africa that is harrowing (and accurate) in its depiction of the devastation associated with petroleum development in those countries.
"Long Change" refers to the time gap, for an oil worker doing seven-day a week shifts, between the day shifts one week and starting the night shift the next week; workers try to fit what personal life they have into that 18 hours. In the same way, Ritt's personal life fits around his corporate petro-passion -- and is inevitably distorted by that reality -- as shows up dramatically in the first explosive chapter of this novel.
This is a surprisingly good book, well-written with some indelible characters, providing a striking portrait of an industry and the forces shaping it -- even as it warns of the dangers that petroleum development brings with it. It's worth reading and pondering.
Don Gillmor gives us a driven novel that provides significant insights into the industry and its dynamics, even as it traces out the drama of one man's life and loves amid the wells, derricks and pipelines of the petro-world. Ritt Devlin is an original character, a 15-year old refugee from Texas escaping a harsh family background and the possible death of an opponent in a fight, who comes to Alberta as oil is beginning to gush, and ends up building his own company with ties to the Arctic, Africa and northern Russia. He is also something of a romantic, as his three marriages trace out over the course of his life -- a man whose love affairs are fraught with passion but also tragedy.
The panorama of petro politics and economics in this book is sweeping, informative and penetrating in terms of environmental understanding of the dangers of uncontrolled expansion of this industry. For Canadians, too, there are some interesting reminders of the way this country's 1982 National Energy Program restructured the oil sector, giving Canadians much more ownership and control than in the past. There is also a chapter where Ritt visits Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea in Africa that is harrowing (and accurate) in its depiction of the devastation associated with petroleum development in those countries.
"Long Change" refers to the time gap, for an oil worker doing seven-day a week shifts, between the day shifts one week and starting the night shift the next week; workers try to fit what personal life they have into that 18 hours. In the same way, Ritt's personal life fits around his corporate petro-passion -- and is inevitably distorted by that reality -- as shows up dramatically in the first explosive chapter of this novel.
This is a surprisingly good book, well-written with some indelible characters, providing a striking portrait of an industry and the forces shaping it -- even as it warns of the dangers that petroleum development brings with it. It's worth reading and pondering.
September 5, 2015
This book interested me because of the subject matter -- similar to that of Will Ferguson's 419, which I read (and loved) earlier this year. When I saw that Ferguson had actually written the blurb on the cover, it gave me even more confidence in giving Long Change a chance.
Don Gillmor's writing is smooth and comprehensible while still throwing out the odd surprise and skillful turn of phrase. Where I was disappointed with this novel was in the fundamental boringness of the main character. I mean, if you make a 15-year-old Texan a murderer (possibly) within the first section of the novel, I start to have expectations. Unfortunately, I felt like that was the big climax of his life; he never really took risks like that again. Heck, he wasn't even active. He was a passive agent in his own life and anything interesting that happened was happening to other people.
I would have loved to see Ritt more involved in the various places he travels for business. I enjoyed 419 so much because of the shifting perspectives and locations. It gave oil a complex story, and to paraphrase Ritt in Long Change, he IS oil, so I wanted him to be equally multi-faceted and unpredictable.
By the end of the novel, my main feeling was apathy, so maybe it aligned with how Ritt felt. Hard to say. I would have enjoyed this novel a lot more if I had read it back to front.
Don Gillmor's writing is smooth and comprehensible while still throwing out the odd surprise and skillful turn of phrase. Where I was disappointed with this novel was in the fundamental boringness of the main character. I mean, if you make a 15-year-old Texan a murderer (possibly) within the first section of the novel, I start to have expectations. Unfortunately, I felt like that was the big climax of his life; he never really took risks like that again. Heck, he wasn't even active. He was a passive agent in his own life and anything interesting that happened was happening to other people.
I would have loved to see Ritt more involved in the various places he travels for business. I enjoyed 419 so much because of the shifting perspectives and locations. It gave oil a complex story, and to paraphrase Ritt in Long Change, he IS oil, so I wanted him to be equally multi-faceted and unpredictable.
By the end of the novel, my main feeling was apathy, so maybe it aligned with how Ritt felt. Hard to say. I would have enjoyed this novel a lot more if I had read it back to front.
September 22, 2015
Gillmor brilliantly tells the story of oil production through the life of Ritt Devlin. We witness Ritt’s early life in Texas in the 1950s where he is first introduced to the oil industry. Then we see his “escape” to Alberta and his rise in field, first as a rigger then on to study geology and then starting his own company. Not only do we witness Ritt’s passion for the industry but his personal passions – his three loves of his life and there endings. There is a great mix of a personal drama and the history of an industry in this book.
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September 10, 2015
A great story packed with information on geology, oil exploration, strange locals and characters.
September 16, 2015
Interesting story of the geopolitics of the oil industry.
October 13, 2015
Easy to read, very interesting - took lots of research.
October 29, 2015
I thoroughly enjoyed this well written novel and learned a lot about the oil industry. The characters are strong and the plot keeps you interested through the passage of 63 years.
November 7, 2015
Excellent read! Sharp, funny, provocative. And you'll never think of oil quite the same way again.
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