In 1994, I lived and worked in a desert oil camp in eastern Saudi Arabia, and wrote the beginnings of The Infidels. I then returned to Arabia in 2012 to work on a gold mine site in western Arabia. Between my first and second visits, the world had changed significantly, but Arabia stayed the same. When I wrote the first book in the series "Infidels", I realized that the story was not complete. As a result, I expanded the plot and the characters, and...