Like many expats, Paul Ride took a job abroad to earn a better level of income to support his family. A trained chef, in the early 1990s Ride was working as a contract catering manager in Kuwait where he'd initially been assigned to a company tasked with extinguishing oil well fires started by the Iraq military in 1991 as they retreated from the country due to the advance of United States-led Gulf War coalition forces. When the firefighters had completed...