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Dubai: The Fall
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ISBN13: 9798258506641
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 22 2026
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 22 2026
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Ranked #1 in Contemporary Literary Fiction on Kindle Store (August 2026) Dubai was the greatest bet in human history. For fifty years, it won. Then came March 2026. When US and Israeli forces strike Iran and the IRGC closes the Strait of Hormuz, Dubai's economy doesn't slow - it stops. Overnight. In the space of a single morning, the world's most ambitious city becomes the world's most fragile one.
DUBAI: The Fall follows three people through twenty-eight days of collapse:
Karim Al Mansouri, Emirati valuation analyst, watches the financial architecture of a city he has spent thirteen years pricing begin to collapse in real time. As covenant breaches stack and the dirham slides, he discovers that the numbers he trusted were always, at some level, a story someone was telling.
Maya Sharma, British-Indian director of Atlantis The Palm, refuses to abandon fourteen hundred guests in a hotel running out of diesel, food, and options. Her evacuation plan is meticulous. Then the road convoy disappears into a mountain tunnel and does not come out.
Rajan Pillai, Keralite construction foreman owed three months' salary by the company that built the city, leads four hundred men into an abandoned tower with bolt cutters and nineteen years of hard-won judgment. He keeps them alive. He becomes, without planning to, the person this city never built a monument to.
Written in three distinct first-person voices, DUBAI: The Fall is a literary thriller about money, migration, identity, and what a city actually is when you strip away everything that was borrowed to build it. It is fiction. The geography is real. The financial mechanisms are real. The Strait of Hormuz is real.
This is the reality that did not happen. The author hopes it never does.
Perfect for readers of Ken Follett, Khaled Hosseini, and Orhan Pamuk. Essential reading for anyone who has lived, worked, or invested in the Gulf.
Karim Al Mansouri, Emirati valuation analyst, watches the financial architecture of a city he has spent thirteen years pricing begin to collapse in real time. As covenant breaches stack and the dirham slides, he discovers that the numbers he trusted were always, at some level, a story someone was telling.
Maya Sharma, British-Indian director of Atlantis The Palm, refuses to abandon fourteen hundred guests in a hotel running out of diesel, food, and options. Her evacuation plan is meticulous. Then the road convoy disappears into a mountain tunnel and does not come out.
Rajan Pillai, Keralite construction foreman owed three months' salary by the company that built the city, leads four hundred men into an abandoned tower with bolt cutters and nineteen years of hard-won judgment. He keeps them alive. He becomes, without planning to, the person this city never built a monument to.
Written in three distinct first-person voices, DUBAI: The Fall is a literary thriller about money, migration, identity, and what a city actually is when you strip away everything that was borrowed to build it. It is fiction. The geography is real. The financial mechanisms are real. The Strait of Hormuz is real.
This is the reality that did not happen. The author hopes it never does.
Perfect for readers of Ken Follett, Khaled Hosseini, and Orhan Pamuk. Essential reading for anyone who has lived, worked, or invested in the Gulf.
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