Like the old virologist had said—sooner or later we all sit down to a banquet of consequences. - Terry Hayes

Despite its huge wealth, vast oil reserves, and love of high-tech American ornaments, nothing really works in Saudi Arabia.

I had been to Jeddah on my previous trip, so I knew it well enough. As somebody once said, there was only one thing to recommend it—say you wanted to commit suicide and couldn’t quite find the courage, two days in Jeddah would do the trick.

Crime intelligence reports from any police force in Europe would tell you that half of Albania was involved in the murder-for-hire business.