The year is 1970, a period of crisis in the Arab world.
Twenty-year-old Hisham has enrolled at university in Riyadh to study politics and economics.
But this city has more than academic qualifications to offer a man of Hisham's mettle, and he soon discovers a strange underworld of alcohol and prostitution where fear, pleasure and politics merge.
Saqi Books Shumaisi, paperback/turki al-hamad
