My latest book, Follow the Pipelines: Uncovering the Mystery of a Lost Spy and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil, begins with the investigation of my master-spy father's death in 1947 following his top secret mission to Saudi Arabia. His instructions were to determine the route of the Trans-Arabian Pipeline, America's biggest industrial venture at the time that would have huge consequences for the post World War II world and would catapult the US into a major power in the Middle East and the world. I learned that the intrigues and power plays behind this pipeline (He wrote in 1944 "We must protect the oil at all costs") were replicated over the next 75 years and largely responsible for this era of endless wars...and now the war in Ukraine, which I have called the Mother of all Energy Wars. Time Magazine has called me an "expert in resource-based politics" and I hope to share that expertise to the world.