"Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude" by Robert Baer

Robert Baer’s second non-fiction book is another sobering call to the American consumer for rationality. Listen to this: When our unquenchable thirst for oil must be satisfied, Washington goes the extra step to acquire it!

Turing our attention to few well known (outside of the 495-beltway) facts about the American-Saudi Arabian political connection, Mr. Baer explores the consequences of a half-century’s stream of money and oil between the two countries and the subsequent product of it- terrorism against democracy.

There is a complex web that has been weaved in Washington and this book attempts to untangle it, but whether it’s successful I leave to you to decide (keep in mind, there are countless references to Saudi-Arabian prices and their contributions to American campaigns. There are the names of many famous politicians rumored to have been connected with some of these princes. And of course, there are also plenty of CIA ‘Deletions’ that left me wondering what else does the US government want to hide?)

Overall, I recommend this book to all lovers of true political conspiracies.

- by Simon Cleveland