British Petroleum and the Redline Agreement

How did the West get Middle East Oil? This tense chronicle of the international deceit and strong-arm tactics of men, oil companies, and governments is laid out in a revealing minute-to-minute drama. Massive research supports this unforgettable revelation by master of corporate investigation Edwin Black. In its pages, Black, with unprecedented access to corporate oil archives and dogged excavations of hidden facts, introduces readers to the little-known Calouste S. Gulbenkian and publishes the previously unseen and secretive Redline Agreement that parceled out Mideast oil.