The Sheik — Maggie Davis

What's it like to be twenty-three years old and the richest man in the world?

Money won't buy happiness, but it will buy banks, customized jets, and all the fabulous trappings of the lives of today's powerful Arab oil billionaires.

Sheik Abdullah al Asmari, twenty-three, Yale educated and thoroughly spoiled, is suddenly thrust into the temptations of Hollywood and New York when his grandfather, the Emir of Rahsmani, sends him to the United States on an important bank-buying mission. Abdullah is caught up in the sumptuous and riotous life of the super-rich in California opened to him by his friend, Ali Hassan, the famous Egyptian movie star -- glamorous and willing starlets, romps through the world's most expensive shops where diamonds are purchased as thanks for an evening's pleasure, and parties where champagne flows and brawls and headlines follow.

Then with no warning the party is over and intrigue and danger intrude. Revolution breaks out in Rahsmani, and as Abdullah leaves Hollywood for New York he is suddenly plunged into real peril, betrayed by those around him. When he finally works his way back to Rahsmani, undercover and in disguise, he is no longer the callous youth who left, but a worldly and powerful man.

This is the dazzlingly authentic and suspense-filled story of the coming of age of a young sheik, lavish with local color and insight into today's amazing oil-rich Arab world.