Oil sheikhs / Linda Blandford.

Includes index.

American ed. published under title: Super-wealth.

London : London for sale - Great sheikhs - Arab fever - The name of the game - A taste for it - The black sheikhs of the family - They also serve - The Arabs are coming -- Saudi Arabia : A town called Alice in Wonderland - The gilt complex The factory - All the king's men - A pride of princes A real geezer - Climbing on the Bandar waggon Pity the poor princesses - The rise of the meritocrats Falling in with the set - 'You know what I mean? Banking on a war-horse - Race against prejudice - The closed book - Ahmad and the nurse - A modern Babel - One long party - Intelligence at work Dinner with the head of intelligence - The film strip Bin Ladin's lamp - Goodbye to all that? -- Bahrain : Playing happy families - Emerald isle browned off The blonde in the desert - We're not rich, you know' But can you bank on it? - Jaded pieces I - Jaded pieces II -- Kuwait : The men who came in from the cold - Singing the blues - The Sellers market - The odd couples - Ways and means - No exit - Crows and peacocks - The thoroughly modern Sabah - A day in Cairo - The thoroughly exceptional Sabah - Nights and knights Gatherings at the country club - The loner -- Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah : Nutty present, dotty past - Boredom by the sea Down toward the pirate coast - Dinner with the foreign minister - Home with the wives - Royal flush The day disaster struck - From bad to worse Something old, something new - Something borrowed, something blue.