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020			_a9781529347890 (pbk.): _cBND 36.74
082			_a953.805 HOP
100			_aHOPE Bradley _eauthor
245	1		_aBlood and oil: _bMohammed bin Salman's ruthless quest for global power/ _cby Bradley Hope & Justin Scheck
260			_aLondon: _ban Hachette UK, _c2021
300			_axvi, 346 pages: _billustrations (some colors); _c20 cm
504			_aInclude index
520			_aThirty-five-year-old Mohammed bin Salman's sudden rise stunned the world. Political and business leaders such as former Prime Minister Tony Blair and WME Chairman Ari Emmanuel flew out to meet with the Crown Prince and came away convinced that his desire to reform the kingdom was sincere. He spoke passionately about bringing women into the workforce and toning down Saudi Arabia's restrictive Islamic law. He lifted the ban on women driving and explored investments in Silicon Valley. But 'MBS' began to betray an erratic interior beneath the polish laid on by scores of consultants and public relations experts like McKinsey & Company. The allegations of excess and about the brutality of his regime began to slip out. Then there was the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. While stamping out dissent in the Saudi royal family by holding three hundred members in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel for months, he continued to exhibit his extreme wealth, including the purchase of a $70 million chateau in Europe and one of the world's most expensive yachts. It seemed that he did not understand nor care about how the outside world would react to his flexing of autocratic muscle. Blood and Oil is a gripping work of investigative journalism about the precipitous ascent of one of the world's most decisive and dangerous new leaders, and the simultaneous fraying Western-Saudi relations. Caught in his net are well-known U.S. bankers, Hollywood figures, and politicians, all eager to help a charming Crown Prince with extraordinary powers, hunger for lucre, a tight relationship with President Trump's son in law Jared Kushner, and an apparent willingness to break anything -and anyone - that gets in the way of his vision. If his bid fails, Saudi Arabia has the potential to become an unstable failed state and magnet for Islamic extremists. And if his bid to transform his country succeeds, even in part, it will have consequences around the world.
650			_aAL-SA'UD, MUHAMMAD BIN SALMAN BIN ABD AL-AZIZ, CROWN PRINCE OF SAUDI ARABIA, 1985-
650			_zSAUDI ARABIA _xFOREIGN RELATIONS _y21ST CENTURY
650			_zSAUDI ARABIA _xKINGS AND RULERS _xSUCCESSION
650			_zSAUDI ARABIA _xPOLITICS AND GOVERNMENT _y21ST CENTURY
650			_aSTATE CRIME _zSAUDI ARABIA _xHISTORY _y21ST CENTURY
700			_aSCHECK Justin _eauthor
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