Dune Devils: The Dark Side of the Dune

by J.A. Hailey

A STORY OF GREAT EVIL !!!


This Dark & Disturbing chronicle of exploitation, rape, torture and murder is set against the backdrop of an empire of kidnapping & abuse, run by the Sheikh of Dubai, the city where Carl Snyder launches his global credit card scam, uncovered by Al, a customer, who is forced into hiding while writing his exposé.
Marvel at the injustice of their courts; watch the Sheikh and his team defrauding the population; visit Jerusalem at the time of the Crucifixion; see what the bank does to protect its secret; and meet the most wonderful girl ever - in a riveting thriller, with amazing plot twists that will keep you on edge.
And yet, this novel is firmly based in reality, with documentary evidence included - from Amnesty International, Anti-Slavery org, Human Rights Watch, Save the Children, The U.S. State Dept., The CIA, The BBC, USA Today, and similar.
, Anti-Slavery org, Human Rights Watch, Save the Children, The U.S. State Dept., The CIA, The BBC, USA Today, and similar.

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First published September 9, 2015

Reviews

[Pat Eroh · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an incredibly intense book aimed at exposing fictional corruption in Dubai and horrific events! However, this is so well-written that it is really scary because of how realistic this book is. Be prepared to be emerged in a world that is not pretty.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

[Ashis Dutt · Rating 5 out of 5]

J.A. Hailey’s often hilarious, easy to read novel is a journey into a sinister world that exists right here and right now – a world of state organized child slavery, and the torment of children for sport.
This dark, yet compelling and uplifting tale is an attempt at halting an evil that the author clearly abhors, and he proceeds to expose all elements of a system that supports an exceedingly wide range of human rights abuses, “Their satanic crimes are a frenetic work of frenzied art in progress.”
Hailey’s loathing is most evident in his readiness to take on all comers, without exception, “In a remarkable instance of collusion in human misery, UNICEF has granted itself licence to absolve Gulf Arab sheikhs of their incredibly sadistic and prolonged crimes against children, and undertaken to repatriate those children to their home countries - which looks like holy work and makes UNICEF and the Gulf sheikhs look good.
The reality is quite the contrary.
First, these beasts should be hanged for murder. Deaths of kidnapped children, forcibly tied onto racing camels, do not exactly amount to sporting accidents. In thirty years of this vile sport, Gulf Arab sheikhs have spilled far more innocent blood, all for entertainment, than most war criminals prosecuted in The Hague.”
Dune Devils begins quietly enough, with a mega bank plotting a scam. It is the shift to Dubai that sparks Hailey’s ire, and he begins cataloguing crime after crime, loading the endnotes with extracts of documents published by an array of international organizations, from Amnesty International to Save the Children, and even the US Government.
In this extraordinary novel, author transports captivated reader to Jerusalem, on the day of the Crucifixion, again going after people who will become today’s child molesters. ““It is not yours to question your master’s command, yet I will inform you that it is because their time has not yet come. Unlike your race, their most evil people are yet to be born. They will join our master’s legions, indeed they will be leaders, but only after betraying their compact with the One, the utterance of whose name is forbidden us, which shall be after discovery of the treasure under the sand.”
“Treasure? Under the sand?” Mordecai was truly puzzled. “And when shall that be?”
“Two thousand years, perhaps.””
This is a hard read in parts, but is never graphic, and is devoid of gratuitous violence. Hailey tackles extremely distressing episodes like a master, and not like a first time novelist. The most bloody and agonizing scene is a camel race, viewed, surprisingly, from an air-conditioned pavilion, and related through the light-hearted banter of the perpetrators, “Sheikh Mana, ha, ha, your jockey’s head has been crushed between your camel’s legs, see the blood spraying, ha, ha. I win our wager, ha, ha.” ”
Similarly, rape is a background occurrence, and Hailey is more concerned with the ghastly social event than with the physical act, reporting with anguish for the victim, and proceeding to investigate laws that make possible such beastly coercion, moving on with his narrative regardless, treating such incidents as reports to his readers. In one, in inspired literary passages, he busies himself looking into the workings of a mind!
This astonishing novel, already important and good enough, seems to have settled down into its plot lines when about half done. Then, with half the pages to go, Hailey leaves it, presumably to others who will undoubtedly follow, and lets something remarkable happen.
Enter the thriller! Nonstop suspense for hundreds of pages (an astounding feat for even experienced genre writers).
No detail can be given out, as almost anything will constitute a spoiler. Every moment is suspenseful, every twist is unexpected, nothing is signaled, leading to a spectacular ending, and a gushing review is all that a spellbound reader can offer, to thank J. A. Hailey for this strangest novel of them all.
We all end with the same emotions, when we have been raced, gasping, to the last page, and when we go to the review page, we all use the same words as those who have been there before us: Amazing story. Couldn’t put it down. Highly recommended. WOW!

[John Foster · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a real page-turning thriller. The author does an excellent job of describing the shady and corrupt underbelly of The City of Gold - Disney in the Desert. Having lived in the emirate and seeing life on both sides of the track, Dune Devils does expose that part of Dubai that you won't see in the brochures. There are a number of well thought-out plot threads, which culminate in an explosive finale. It's a sobering book. A hard read in places, but just echoes some of the stories I had been told. The author writes as a investigative journalist and gives the reader extensive sourcing in the appendices to make their own judgments. Away from the five-star hotels, watersports, indoor skiing, and materialism, the novel explores issues of corruption, exploitation, and the nefarious world of intelligence and how it is entwined with those in power and a servant of global capitalism. I look forward to when this novel is published for the wider public.

[Lizzy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dune Devils helped me make sense of living in Dubai during the boom-and-bust years although I hope to God that everything in it was entirely fictional.
That said, this book kept me gripped throughout.
If you only read one book in your life, make sure it's Dune Devils

[Dennis Burke · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is absolutely the worst book ever written, how was it published? Why did Amazon promote it? Rape, sodomy, child abuse wrapped around stupid story, don't waste your time.

[Sayah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Believable plot....brilliant writing

[Sanjoy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Riveting !!

[Rashid · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating story line. Unputdownable thriller! This is a Must Read!