{"product_id":"9781101140734","title":"Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"It's all here-Islam, the family tree, a sea of oil and money to match, palace intrigue...This is high drama and an epic tale.\" \u003cbr\u003e -Tom Brokaw \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Though Saudi Arabia sits on one of the richest oil deposits in the world, it also produced fifteen of the nineteen 9\/11 hijackers. In this immensely important book, journalist Robert Lacey draws on years of access to every circle of Saudi society giving readers the fullest portrait yet of a land straddling the worlds of medievalism and modernity. Moving from the bloody seizure of Mecca's Grand Mosque in 1979, through the Persian Gulf War, to the delicate U.S.-Saudi relations in a post 9\/11 world, \u003ci\u003eInside the Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e brings recent history to vivid life and offers a powerful story of a country learning how not to be at war with itself.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47133221028080,"sku":"9781101140734","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101140734_p0.jpg?v=1763685122","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101140734","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}