Oil Rush: The International Tug of War

With the Cold War in full swing, oil is the name of the game . . . rich, black crude with the might to radically shift the world’s fragile geopolitics. Almost overnight, the tiny Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain sheds its near invisibility to become a hotbed of international intrigue.

As shadowy operatives of the Soviet Union and the United States battle behind the scenes for ultimate control, a mercurial Texas Wildcatter named Alexander Wyatt finds himself as the unlikely center of everything...