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Foot and Smith give a blow by blow account of the mysterious death of Helen Smith, a British Nurse who was working in a private hospital in Jeddah. Foot was a reporter for the Daily Mirror and Private Eye who was initially put off by Ron Smith's insistence of a British/Saudi cover up concerning his daughter's death.
The two authors put forward a good case showing that the British and Saudi authorities were covering something up concerning Helen's Smith death. One thing is certain, her death was not due to accidentally falling off the balcony with a friend. The official reason that was endorsed by the Foreign Office.
The book also exposes the bored expat. life that most western citizens had while living in Saudi Arabia. Divisions of class seem to become even more apparent here, especially when it came to Ron Smith trying to get the Foreign Office and the UK Embassy in Saudi Arabia to release more details of his daughter's death. This includes Smith secretly recording conversations with diplomats who patronised and lied to him during his visits to Arabia.
The Helen Smith case is now best known because her body has still not been buried. Instead she is still stored in a morturary in Yorkshire while her father still hopes for a re-opening of the case. During the 1980's he was promised by then Labour leader, Michael Foot, that should they get in power, there would be a investigation on Helen Smith's death. There seems to have been no response from Tony Blair's goverment.
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The writing has gotten more solid, less forced in the descriptive details since the first book. It's not grand literature, but it's enjoyable in all the essential areas of plot, character, and description. There's just enough about popmusic to be fun, and nothing at all annoying or cloying.
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