V Harry had not made many friends in Saudi Arabia. Apart from being a natural loner, suffering initially from the heartache of separation from his loved ones, he was never a good mixer. There was, however, one man in his organization with whom he had...

III For the first couple of months, Harry Wentworth got on fine in Saudi Arabia. The job was excellent, and because there was a real sense of urgency about it, he felt free of what he often considered the petty restrictions of home. In the past, he had...

In case you are unaware, there is a British woman, Linda Carty, currently on death row in Texas. By all accounts, the case against her is deeply flawed. There is an online petition currently available, which will be presented to those in power as soon...

What follows this week, is a new departure for me. Since arriving in Saudi back in April, I have amused myself from time to time with writing some fiction. I have been doing this off and on for over 40 years, but chiefly for my own amusement. It occurred...

I suspect like many people around the world this week, I have been shocked and horrified at the ordeal of Jaycee Lee Dugard, the child abducted at the age of eleven and kept as a virtual prisoner for eighteen years. While the tabloids have had a field...