Layover in Dubai (42 page)

Building Towers, Cheating Workers
, the exhaustive Human Rights Watch report on living conditions in Dubai’s camps for construction workers, was quite helpful, as were the interviews I was able to conduct with workers living in the Al Qusais and Sonapur labor camps—that is, until I was chased out of both areas by image-conscious security personnel.

Thanks to the affable and interesting Bill Trundley, vice president of Corporate Security and Investigations for GlaxoSmithKline, for patiently explaining the duties and challenges of a security chief for a major pharmaceutical firm.

And thanks as well to Bert Tatham, the Canadian aid worker unjustly imprisoned in Dubai for several months in 2007, for offering his descriptions and observations on the sometimes harrowing living conditions inside the Dubai Central Jail in Al Aweer.

Last but not least, thanks to friend and colleague Sandy Banisky for advising me on how to best equip Nanette Weaver for battle, cosmetically speaking.

Dan Fesperman’s travels as a writer have taken him to thirty countries and three war zones.
Lie in the Dark
won the Crime Writers’ Association of Britain’s John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for best first crime novel, and
The Small Boat of Great Sorrows
won the association’s Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller.
The Prisoner of Guantánamo
won the Dashiell Hammett Award from the International Association of Crime Writers. He lives in Baltimore.

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2010 by Dan Fesperman

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Fesperman, Dan, [date]

Layover in Dubai / by Dan Fesperman.—1st ed.

p. cm.

“This is a Borzoi book.”

eISBN: 978-0-307-59364-1

1. Dubai (United Arab Emirates)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3556.E778L39 2010

813′.54—dc22 2010006363

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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