The Doomed Oasis: Hammond InnesEnglishman Colonel Charles Whitaker forsakes his native country for Islam and the deserts of Arabia. Adapting quickly to this hostile terrain, he soon becomes more Bedouin than British an almost legendary figure who the Arabs know as 'The Wise One'. Whitaker's illegtimate son, David, is a tough from the Cardiff docks, wanted by the police and who escapes to Arabia to become a geologist. He in turn is followed by Cardiff solicitor George Grant, whose
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Englishman Colonel Charles Whitaker forsakes his native country for Islam and the deserts of Arabia. Adapting quickly to this hostile terrain, he soon becomes more Bedouin than British - an almost legendary figure who the Arabs know as 'The Wise One'. Whitaker's illegtimate son, David, is a tough from the Cardiff docks, wanted by the police and who escapes to Arabia to become a geologist. He in turn is followed by Cardiff solicitor George Grant, whose duties as executor take him into a world of sand, heat, desert politics, the intrigues of the big oil companies and the wars of the oil-mad sheikhs. Can father and son meet and reconcile before greed destroys their chances?