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Success
Stories:
Luigi
Falconi
 In
1974, Lou Falconi, an idealistic
27-year-old, uproots his wife and
family from the security of middle-class
America to become headmaster
of a small oil company school in Dubai,
a desolate oil community in the
volatile Middle East. Lou soon meets Tim
Johnson, an eccentric
ex-oilman known as “The Duke,” who
initiates Lou to a world of power
and wealth.
Intoxicated
by
the inexhaustible riches of the oil-rich
Shaikhdom and the powerful
people around him, Lou eagerly follows
the Duke on a journey in search
of fortune. During this rite of passage,
Lou confronts heavily-armed
Iranian patrol boats, Yemeni extremists,
Arab Jinns (spirits), a
likable but ruthless gun-smuggling Bedou
(nomad), and finally, a
complex scheme by the Duke to obtain
immortality. The internal moral
struggle, brought about by Lou’s
personal quest for wealth and the mystical magnetism of
the Duke,
tests Lou’s virtue, loyalty and love.
 While
the main body of the story takes the
reader into Dubai’s past, the book
ends in today’s dynamic Dubai, with
a twisting mystery orchestrated by
the Duke’s passion for life and
desire to leave his mark in history.
Part of this quest for immortality
involves a strategy to use Arab
wealth to relocate the United
Nations from New York to an
ultramodern,
hi-tech, ultra-secure purpose-built
city located in Dubai.
This book takes the reader on a
magic carpet ride deep into the
political, cultural and sometimes
perilous realm of modern
Dubai—Dubai,
one of the wonders of the modern
world, where money begets power, and
power rules.
Although
the novel is humorous fiction, The Duke of Dubai
is based in part on real
life experiences.
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