John Lathrop: 3 books

At the British Ambassador's Christmas party in Cambodia, US Diplomat Mike Smith meets an elegant black woman, Zainab, the wife of the British chargé, with whom he starts an affair. Smith's mission to help an American oil company to win a concession, is in direct conflict with Zainab's mission to uncover corruption.

Late at night on the eleventh-floor balcony of a deserted building on the Persian Gulf, American businessman Steve Kemp finds himself falling back in love with Helen -- the Irishwoman he'd left more than a decade before -- as bombs explode below. Kemp returned to the Eastern Province of Saudi...

Entering service in the early 1960s, the M60 tank was in production for 23 years and formed the backbone of US Army and Marine armoured units during the Cold War. Over 15,000 were built in four basic models: the M60, M60A1, M60A2, and the M60A3. Although the M60 had been phased out of US Army service...