| Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck | Although the benefits from development and global connectedness-in which we are all inescapably complicit-have been huge, some of those benefits have flowed to people who have systematically made the lives of others desperate and miserable |
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| Wall Street Journal reporters Hope and Scheck diligently chart the rapid rise-and recent faltering-of MBS | Some of those resources will have come from a country whose government steals from and oppresses its citizens |
His big book should become required reading.
7| Caught in his net are well-known US bankers, Hollywood figures, and politicians, all eager to help the charming and crafty crown prince | It is a serious and urgent appeal to the conscience of the West |
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| This book is riveting and fascinating |
Blood Oil shows how the West can now lead a peaceful revolution by ending its dependence on authoritarian oil, and by getting consumers out of business with the men of blood.
10| " --Angus Deaton, Princeton University, 2015 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, and author of The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality "This book is one of those rare manifestos that awaken people to a pressing ethical issue by changing the way they see the world | It reads like a thriller and mixes elements of business, political and crime writing |
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| Among others: it states that Harrods is on Old Brompton Road | Hope and Scheck show how MBS' precipitous rise coincided with the fraying of the simple bargain that had been at the head of US-Saudi relations for more than 80 years: oil, for military protection |
' His proposal is original, exact, and morally admirable.
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