Alan Clay Timeline and Summary

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• Alan arrives in Jeddah and meets Yousef when he misses the shuttle to KAEC.
• When he finally makes it to KAEC, he sees nothing much happening there. Sayed and Mujaddid convince him otherwise.
• Alan finds his crew in a tent outside the Welcome Center and wonders what's happening.
• He and his crew have no idea how long they'll have to wait for an audience with the king. They try to stay occupied.
• Alan seethes as he waits to speak with Karim about problems in the tent. On his second try to corner Karim, he meets Hanne.
• Hanne gives him some moonshine to help him sleep. They share their life stories.
• Alan drinks himself into oblivion at the hotel, but before passing out, he does a little impromptu surgery on his neck lump.
• He learns about Yousef's girl trouble and Yousef promises to make a doctor's appointment for Alan and his lump.
• After more fruitless waiting in the tent, Alan returns to Hanne's moonshine and tries to write letters to Kit.
• Hanne invites Alan to a wild party at the Danish embassy. Alan fails to respond to Hanne's advances.
• Yousef takes Alan to see Dr. Hakem. She tells him his lump is probably benign and schedules surgery. Alan's immediately attracted to her. Yikes.
• Alan goes for an awkward dinner and bath (!) at Hanne's place. We learn that he's feeling fairly dead inside.
• Another drunken night, another improvised probing of the neck lump.
• Alan finds out that Karim has been avoiding him. He makes demands that Karim seems to agree to, and the two go on a yacht ride.
• After a false alarm about the arrival of the king, Alan goes on a tour of the pink condos. He tries to settle a dispute among laborers and is nearly beaten.
• Alan heads out to Yousef's family home to show solidarity with his beleaguered friend. He meets Yousef's friend Salem.
• Several shenanigans ensue: Alan tells a paranoid neighbor that he might be a CIA agent—and then he nearly kills a shepherd boy during a wolf hunt.
• Alan returns to Jeddah in disgrace. He has surgery to remove his lump and winds up flirting with Dr. Hakem later.
• He joins Zahra Hakem for a date at her bro's beach house. There are steamy moments, but nothing ultimately "happens."
• Alan and crew finally get to present their technology to King Abdullah—but the contract goes to a Chinese firm.
• He decides to stay on at KAEC in the hope of selling something (anything) to the developing city.