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A Hologram for the King Chapter 13

By Dave Eggers

Chapter 13

When Alan and crew arrive at the tent in KAEC the next day, there's a note of welcome taped to the door. There are promises of a face-to-face meeting after lunch.
But nobody appears. Alan goes to check it out, and finds that Karim is in Riyadh (which is a pretty long ways away).
There's officially nothing they can do but sit in the tent and watch movies on laptops. Alan decides to give it one more try at the Black Box.
He wanders upstairs and meets the lovely Hanne, a blonde beauty who sympathizes with his plight.
Alan learns from Hanne that King Abdullah hasn't been to KAEC in the eighteen months that she's worked there. This is not good news for Alan and crew.