Bøger af William Wesley

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An American engineer finds himself in Arabia in Wesley's WWII novel. Hank Simmons journeys from San Francisco to Dhahran as the Allies are landing in Normandy: they can't win the war without petroleum from a starving desert kingdom. Hank's mission: help the Arabian American Oil Company build its first refinery and run its new marine terminal. An OSS agent helps Hank recruit construction workers in the fallen capital of Italian East Africa and pay their families in provinces under Nazi control. But living conditions in the segregated encampments at Ras Tanura worsen as the fighting in Europe is coming to an end. Hank is caught in an escalating series of conflicts between the Arabs, Italians, and Americans: the objectives of the stakeholders are as merciless as the war itself. A fascinating, multi-faceted novel about a forgotten chapter in the history of the most powerful oil-producing kingdom in the Persian Gulf. Early Praise for Concessions and Betrayals: "The story of the Italians in the Saudi oil patch has long needed to be told. Trapped far from home and forced to live in squalor, they nevertheless were essential to the development of the Saudi oil industry. Even readers who know Aramco's early history will learn a lot from this book's fascinating narrative" -Thomas W. Lippman, author of Crude Oil, Crude Money "A stunning achievement: William Wesley has given us not just a riveting, page-turning novel full of character and color, but also the richest and most complete historical account yet of the fateful birth of the U.S.-Saudi alliance and the post-World War II world petroleum order." Hugh Wilford, author of America's Great Game "A sweeping WWII tale set in a harsh, forbidding, beautiful landscape, William Wesley's account of the collaboration between American oil interests and the nascent Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is nothing less than epic. To build a marine terminal on the Persian Gulf that could refine and export only a few years after the discovery of the greatest oil field on the planet demanded an international team of geologists, drillers, engineers, architects, oil men, laborers, and of course, politicians. This is their story, a story on the grandest scale, exhilarating and surprising at every turn. The innovations needed to surmount the staggering challenge; the cultural clashes and quirks; the cast of many, many thousands speaking different languages; a founding king, a dying president, a young man from California with a gal waiting back home - it's all here - human, heroic, and hugely engrossing." -Lynn Stegner, author of For All the Obvious Reasons "The author's prose is simple but effective...in this exposition-heavy novel that often reads more like a memoir. Even so, the book provides a rare window into the birth of one of the 20th century's most fascinating and impactful industries...a flawed but fascinating novel." -- Kirkus Reviews

In 1994, a little girl becomes deathly ill on a reservation in the shadows of the eastern Sierra Nevada, spiritual homeland of the Paiute nation. Hunter Liddell, a young doctor on duty in a remote ER, is unable to stabilize Lilly Garcia. A winter snowstorm prevents ambulances from reaching Inyo District Hospital. Hunter makes the fateful decision to have Lilly's parents drive her to the closest children's hospital; more than a hundred miles away. Four Stars from ForeWord Clarion Review: Andi Diehn - "Health care is on the minds of most Americans...as the debate about who should pay for what ebbs and flows across the country. Physician William Wesley addresses the human side of the dilemma in his novel about a two-year-old Paiute girl who arrives at a poorly staffed emergency room in rural California...Wesley writes with obvious knowledge about, and passion for, the inner workings of the health care system. The scenes that take place in the emergency room are gripping and authentic, and that same narrative drive continues in the courtroom. His characters are thoroughly imagined and well balanced...Ghost Dancing is an entertaining, smart book about an issue that touches us all." Five Stars from One of 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare - Angela Gardner: "Based on a true story, it is a compelling portrayal of the real-life consequences of conflicting priorities in medicine, business, and national health policy. The characters in this novel are real - from the broken-down convict still able to put his medical training to good use to the poor Native American child living in the wrong place at the wrong time and everyone in between - and their stories portray our health care system at its worst. Part medical novel, part love story, part tale of redemption, this novel is a page-turner from beginning to end." Robert Rosenbloom MD, Past President of the California ACEP: "Ghost Dancing...is a great story that weaves the challenges of man, the human struggle and redemption." William Wesley, award-winning physician, advocate, and author, offers a complex and moving account of how the death of one child transforms everyone and everything that was part of her life. Ghost Dancing is a tribute to tens of thousands emergency physicians who changed the course of hundreds of millions of American lives, delivering the best care our system had to offer, under circumstances that often threatened their own well-being. It dramatizes the ongoing conflict in America between health care as a fundamental human right and a privilege at a price neither patients nor providers truly control. It is also reveals the alarming disparity between big-city emergency care, as seen on TV, and sparse access in rural areas.