THE SPEAR
Robin Edwards
Paperback
(Independently published, Aug. 25, 2019)
A NOVEL BASED ON A TRUE STORY OF HIGH ADVENTURE IN THE ARABIAN DESERT In 1902, forty men of the al Sa'ud family returned from exile to cross the vast Arabian desert and reclaim the city and lands lost to the al Rasheed tribe years before. During the final fighting outside the Mismak Fortress in Riyadh a steel spear-tip became embedded so deeply in the door that it was impossible to extract.The spear-tip can be touched to this day.This is the story of two young friends and how they came to be there when the spear was thrown.