Days of Sand and Royals
Days of Sand and Royals is a new true to life book about the author’s 14 years of employment in Saudi Arabia for major companies and the Saudi Arabian Royal Family. Len Steiner is originally from Leetsdale, PA. (Pittsburgh Area). The exciting book is an excellent depiction of how the author lived and worked under Sharia law plus his daily contacts with the Saudi Arabian military people and Royal Family. It also tells about the Sharia restrictions in the country as opposed to the United States.
This is another new and unique original book by a Pittsburgh author published on October 13, 2016 by Black Rose Writing of Castroville, Texas. Days of Sand and Royals tells the true story of the day by day events of working in the Air Defense field for major American companies plus the Saudi Arabian Royal Family in Saudi Arabia. It is not fiction but real life drama before, during, and after the Gulf Wars. The author is a former resident of the Pittsburgh, PA. area. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha and is a 21-year veteran of the United States Air Force who served during the Korean and Vietnam Wars. He worked in technical management positions in Saudi Arabia and this is his interesting story. He has also written two previous books.
About Len Steiner (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Author)
Leonard (Len) Steiner Sr. was born in Cleveland, OH where he attended Catholic and Public schools; He moved to Leetsdale, PA near Pittsburgh and graduated from Leetsdale High School that is now Quaker Valley High School. He served in the US Air Force in technical positions for 21 years and retired in Niceville, Florida. He graduated from the University of Nebraska at Omaha with a degree in Business Management and Economics and the University of West Florida for the Masters of Business Administration. He worked as a Radar Marketing Representative and Department Head of the Technical Writing Department of Vitro Services Corporation in Fort Walton Beach, FL. Later, he worked for Lockheed Corporation in Saudi Arabia for eight years as a Communications-Electronics Engineer, Site Manager, and General Manager for the Royal Saudi Air Force Air Defense Program. He returned to Saudi Arabia and the same program as General Manager for Grumman Technical Services and remained as the Program Director during the First Gulf War. He worked for the US Army as a Senior Technical Writer at Anniston Army Depot, AL and wrote official army maintenance and overhaul manuals for the M1A1 Abrams Tank, and Laboratory Facilities. He worked at Maxwell AFB, AL as a Researcher in the Global War on Terrorism Information Office at the US Air Force Historical Research Agency. He was a volunteer Managing Editor in Dothan, AL. of The Senior Informer, a quarterly newsletter for senior citizens. He is the author of short stories and one of them, The Manuscript of Adrian Hobart, was broadcast on the British Broadcasting Company’s Short Story Program. And it was also published in the Troy University (AL) literary publication, Copper Plate Review.
