The first cultural history of Britain's Middle Eastern empire, Spies in Arabia tells the story of an intelligence community groping through a fog of cultural notions, the violence of the Great War, and an interfering democracy towards a new style of "covert empire" centered on a brutal aerial surveillance regain. This book is nuanced, challenging, nicely written, interesting and thought-provoking... rich and rewarding... It is a book that is sure to be well received and it will further our understanding of Britain and the Middle East.