There are many ways for a young man to go to hell when trying to find
himself. Logan Wilson knows. Deadended in Texas, about to lose his fiancée
Caitlin, Logan has impulsively committed himself to work a risky exploratory
oil rig in Saudi Arabia’s Rub al Khali desert, the bleak Empty Quarter.
The Empty Quarter is a daunting place of heat, sand and scorpions where oil
riggers work under a boss, Jamie Strong, who is Logan’s increasingly
unreliable and possibly unstable friend. As they precariously search for
legendary high-pressure gas reservoir, Logan is plunged into dangerous
depths in his relations with Jamie, the other roughnecks, and the oil
company. The consequences could be explosive, Logan realizes as he
desperately struggles with his situation and with himself. He now harbors a
single barebones plan—to survive the hell of the Empty

“The Empty Quarter is one of those remarkably gripping stories that leaves the reader a little energy-sapped because of his, or her, involvement in the lives of unusual characters in an unusual setting. This tale of drilling into the earth is, in fact, more about drilling into the souls of men.”
—Terry Kay

About the Author

David Marion Wilkinson worked in the oil patch—first in the Gulf of Mexico, then later in the North Sea and in Saudi Arabia. This is his second novel. David’s first novel, Not Between Brothers, won the Violet Crown award for fiction. He lives in West Texas.

www.dmarionwilkinson.com