The Right People Volume 6: Bloodthirsty Beasts

In the 6th volume of my series "The Right People", Tom and his friends experience the brutal consequences of the 1967 Middle East War during a visit to the Suez Canal.

Traveling by car from Cairo to the Libyan border, the friends get into an altercation with Egyptian police officers, and later in Tripolis they meet a young Saudi, who is under the influence of Islamist fundamentalists and heir to a large construction company.

The somewhat ironic title "Bloodthirsty Beasts" refers to an encounter with a family of bears in the mountains of northern Greece, and to a snake bite that sends Sophia into a panic on the island of Tassos.

From secret NATO papers, the Greek resistance group learns of the existence of covert "stay-behind forces" that have been set up in NATO countries in case of a Soviet invasion, but have also been interfering in the internal politics of some countries.

Last but not least, the love triangle of Tom, Nikos and Sophia dissolves after Sophia falls in love with a Nubian student named Maher in Cairo - but you never really know with Sophia...

New chapters are published every Saturday. Have fun browsing.