Hope You Are Satisfied

The Sheik is pissed. Along with his wives and children, the Sheik got put on the wrong plane, and ended up waiting hours in the desert on a hot tarmac for a crew that never came. As usual its Riyas fault.Riya works for Discover Arabia, a rinky-dink tour guide company in the far-flung desert outpost of Dubai. Its 1990, and the citys iconic skyline, along with its global reputation, remains but a gleam in developers eyes. For twenty-five year-old Riya, Dubai is a desert purgatory that spreads out between her family back home in India, and an as-yet-defined future ahead of her. If she belongs to anything, it is to the citys transient underclass of young people from South Asia, Africa, and Europe who arrive with the ubiquitous goal of earning more than they could at home.Will a favor from Dubais most notorious fixer get Riya back in everyones good graces? Or will the impending possibility of an invasion by Saddam Hussein make Riyas problems (along with everyone elses) a moot point?Author Tania Malik presents a lovably sarcastic cast of misfits who will undo the guest worker stereotype one tequila shot at a time, while around them, international arms dealers, American soldiers, CIA consultants, corrupt bosses, and wayward vacationers all compete for Discover Arabias attention, even as their world teeters on the cusp of an explosive global conflict.