Marrakesh One-two

by Richard Grenier

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0708831524
• ISBN13: 9780708831526
• Release Date: December 1986
• Publisher: FUTURA PUBNS.
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Critique of US Foreign Policy

While it is many years since I read the Novel, the work appeared a thinly disguised critique of American Foreign Policy toward the Middle East and the Islamic World as it was in the 1970s. Especially the bit about a sunday school teacher named James Earl Carter being responsible for cutting off the CIA funding which was directed to funding various charitable works in Iran, effectively destabilizing Society and resulting in the overthrow of the Shah. Fiction, smiction; that was just a front to get published without getting sued or banned! Well worth a read!

North Africa in the 70's

A quite funny novel demonstrating many of the usual differences of points of view experienced when two cultures clash. Specific to Anglo-Arab circumstances in the 70's, readers who have lived outside their native country, whatever it may be, will recognize the conflicts that arise in any cross-culture environment.You're left with the distinct impression that the author spent many years in the Arab world, loving it and hating it, and probably working for some other country's intelligence service. A funny book on its own, but also a good rare snapshot of life there then.