About the Author

John Harding has lived and worked in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Singapore, Italy, Jamaica and Belgium. This includes work for the largest OPEC member, Saudi Aramco, a position as Deputy Assistant Commissioner of Inland Revenue in Singapore's civil service, and a Wall Street investment analyst. A book, ghostwritten by John, has been sold by Mark Wolper to Warner Bothers. John has been a professor at Pratt Institute of Technology's Graduate School of Engineering in New York City, at King Fahd University in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. He has also worked for the United Nations Development Programme as a U.N. Expert in Kingston, Jamaica, and as a consultant to the United Nations Secretariat in New York. A native-born American, John speaks Italian, French, and Spanish, Jeddah-Street-Boy Arabic and spices his conversation with a wealth of Yiddish expressions-thanks to all his Jewish stepmothers. John runs a small publishing company, IDKPress (http: //idkpress.com/), and has published works by other authors. He has also written several screenplays including one for Escape from Paradise and is listed in IMDB at https: //www.imdb.com/name/nm3889886/.