General Clive Colin O'Reith has invested $200 million to bring a giant oilfield on line in Afghanistan. A new warlord has just taken over. The Shah in Persia is shaking on his Peacock throne. The pipeline runs through South Persia. If the Shah goes down, so does the oilfield. He needs powerful political influence DC to save his investment. Sir George P. Cardinal McDonough can sway the Pope (Paul VI). O'Reith is a friend of General Haig, Chief of Staff to President Nixon. Nixon is in big Watergate trouble. O'Reith offers to save Nixon if Nixon will help him save his oilfield. A deal is struck....
General Clive Colin O'Reith has invested $200 million to bring a giant oilfield on line in Afghanistan. A new warlord has just taken over. The Shah in...
In this, Volume I of "The Golden Lane Trilogy," we begin the career of Clive Colin O'Reith, International Oil man. He is haunted by a dream that recurs. This is the dream: In the night, O'Reith dreamed again that Holly No.1 burned out of control. The billowing flames, roiling and angry, drove the doomed derrick man ever higher into the skeletal structure of the steel derrick. Like a man mesmerized, rigid and unable to move, he watched the frantic silhouette stiffen and quiver.
For a moment the smoking man flailed helplessly in the incandescent air. Then he pitched forward like an awkward...
In this, Volume I of "The Golden Lane Trilogy," we begin the career of Clive Colin O'Reith, International Oil man. He is haunted by a dream that recur...
