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Desert Ghost: The Arabian Affair
AN AMERICAN AGENT... A RELIGION DIVIDED ...A CONTINENT IN TURMOIL
CIA agent Jason Wakefield leads an epic story of courage, betrayal, and death in the Middle East when he is sent to investigate a possible coup in Oman which sits on one of the most important waterways in the world.
The Gulf of Oman leads through the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf, the waterway which supports annual cargo values into the trillions. But its most important stakeholder isn’t Oman. That distinction falls to Saudi Arabia from where shipments of oil traverse the Persian Gulf into the Indian Ocean, and the world beyond.
So why a coup to depose the Omani Sultan, a tacit U.S. ally?
The question Who has the power to challenge the multi-trillion dollar wealth of a hundred-year-old kingdom? The clandestine services of multiple countries clash as the investigation progresses.
As Wakefield starts to unravel the mystery, he draws unwanted attention. Clearly on to something, he discovers just who is with him and who is against him. After all, betrayal is routine in espionage. Now he has an even more perfidious a silent assassin bent on his death.
CIA agent Jason Wakefield leads an epic story of courage, betrayal, and death in the Middle East when he is sent to investigate a possible coup in Oman which sits on one of the most important waterways in the world.
The Gulf of Oman leads through the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf, the waterway which supports annual cargo values into the trillions. But its most important stakeholder isn’t Oman. That distinction falls to Saudi Arabia from where shipments of oil traverse the Persian Gulf into the Indian Ocean, and the world beyond.
So why a coup to depose the Omani Sultan, a tacit U.S. ally?
The question Who has the power to challenge the multi-trillion dollar wealth of a hundred-year-old kingdom? The clandestine services of multiple countries clash as the investigation progresses.
As Wakefield starts to unravel the mystery, he draws unwanted attention. Clearly on to something, he discovers just who is with him and who is against him. After all, betrayal is routine in espionage. Now he has an even more perfidious a silent assassin bent on his death.
418 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 7, 2026
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