About the Book
This was the first book I ever wrote as myself. I'm still proud of it. I lived in Dubai for a number of years and it was an exciting place to be. It was where the lowly could become powerful overnight, hairdressers became property tycoons, laborers import-export multi-millionaires. It was where politicians from the west mixed with gangsters, tribesmen, big oil and corporate rulers without anyone asking awkward questions. Spies went shopping, assassinations happened in hotel rooms where we partied.
Stunning feats of architecture could be thrown up almost overnight and heritage demolished just as quickly. It was a town filled with good and bad and you either loved it or hated it. And as in the west there was brutality and slavery in the background, hidden, just as it is here.
But sexual violence in fiction is nearly always focused on women. In real-life the other kind is hidden even deeper and rarely, if ever, talked about.
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Secret Skin
Mystery / ThrillerSex, lies, and shisha pipes. A beautiful woman enslaved as a prostitute, one of too many. An unrelenting journalist who's fallen for the subject of his story. Ruthless gangsters, con-men, corrupt cops, pimps, arms dealers, out only for themselves. A...
