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An imaginary island on the Equator has all of a sudden achieved importance through the finding of oil - exactly what will eventually the women and men living under the tensions of life on this island? At one end of this island is the oil refinery where the people of the staff are in constant proximity one to the other, and where emotions are heightened by the lack of level of privacy. The men are goaded by ambitions for vitality, as the women are attracted into affairs of love and enthusiasm. With the other end of the island is a hotbed of politics in which a English diplomat is attempting to wthhold the island under Britain's sphere of influence; where an ailing ruler is fearful of exactly what will happen when he's succeeded by a young and untrained prince; in which a nationalist group is plotting to overthrow the monarchy and seize the oil fields. Waugh grips brilliantly his political plots, but always interwoven with them will be the personal dramas of love and fear, of cowardice and courage. Rich in aspect and characterisation, and in the spectacular colours and customs of this peculiar land, the novel has constant suspense and variety. Alec Waugh, 1898-1981, was a English novelist blessed in London and informed at Sherborne Consumer Institution, Dorset. Waugh's first novel, The Loom of Youth (1917), is a semi-autobiographical account of public-school life that triggered some controversy at the time and resulted in his expulsion. Waugh was the only guy ever before to be expelled from Old Shirburnian Modern culture. Despite setting up this record, Waugh continued to be the successful writer of over 50 works, and resided in many spectacular places throughout his life which later became the adjustments for some of his texts. He was also a noted wine connoisseur and campaigned to help make the cocktail party a normal feature of 1920s cultural life.
