Out of all the Muslim nations on this planet, Saudi Arabia was the most conservative. They made Iran and Afghanistan look like England! The Kingdom of...Saudi Arabia’s lawmakers followed the Koran to the letter and Sharia Law was the rule of the land. Women couldn’t drive or own businesses in Saudi Arabia. Also, they didn’t allow women to leave the home without being accompanied by a male relative. As an Israeli woman, I didn’t trust the Saudis as far as I could throw them. Even though Farouk. We can't live off of grocery store shelves for the rest of our lives. Everything has a sell-by date. Some of it's good for five years, some two, some six months. A lot of it can be extended by quite a bit by keeping it in refrigerators, just above freezing. Peanut butter, for example, and wheat flour. Tuna fish, canned beef and canned chicken. Evaporated milk. Coffee. You get the idea. The meat has to be kept waaay below zero to keep it good for ten years or so--maybe more.Now, where are we. As planned, it was a very dark night when they climbed into their transport helicopters and set out for Bolar. The choppers climbed to 15,000 feet before crossing the border into Bolar and everybody got their paragliders ready. The big lake made an easy target to find, even with no moon, and the only island in the lake was obvious even before they put on their night-vision glasses. On command, all of the team jumped virtually simultaneously and they arrived on the roof of the villa the same. Paco knew Will was there, but didn’t let on, ‘Oh, I’m in that slot, you’re in this one and the other one belongs to some asshole. He owns the stand you’re using. He shows up here and rides once in a while, but he’s not very good at it. He mostly just drinks all our beer and then leaves the next day after he sleeps it off on the floor here.’ None of that was true, and with a smirk, Will was thinking ‘Thanks, pal’ with all of his heart. Without friends, you’re nothing, he thought. Her eyes had.