"What's the strangest thing you've ever seen or experienced?" Gina and Scott Gaille have traveled to more than 100 countries, including many off-the-beaten-path places in Africa, South America, and Asia. Wherever they go, they ask this question. Everyone has a story, and some are truly extraordinary. Strange Tales of World Travel recounts 50 of these Bizarre, Mysterious, Horrible, Hilarious encounters, including: Daring Diplomat, who ate the flesh of the venomous cobra bird in the Sahara Desert Pearl Trader, who survived a fever through a harrowing "human" honey treatment in Oman Agent Ghost, who was shot and left to die in a garbage dump in Africa Death-Defying Instagrammer, who stepped on the tail of the world's sixth most venomous snake in Australia to take a better photo Human Pet, who became a prince's prisoner in Qatar Imperial CEO, who made a minion fly twelve hours to Paris from Abu Dhabi to buy clean underwear Gorilla Doll, who broke the rules of visiting Rwandan gorillas and got dragged up the side of a volcano Strange Tales of World Travel presents unforgettable stories that celebrate the unique character of countries around the globe-and the distinctive characters that make travel endlessly intriguing and exhilarating.

"What's the strangest thing you've ever seen or experienced?" Gina and Scott Gaille have traveled to more than 100 countries, including many off-the-beaten-path places in Africa, South America, and Asia. Wherever they go, they ask this question. Everyone has a story, and some are truly extraordinary. Strange Tales of World Travel recounts 50 of these Bizarre, Mysterious, Horrible, Hilarious encounters, including: Daring Diplomat, who ate the flesh of the venomous cobra bird in the Sahara Desert Pearl Trader, who survived a fever through a harrowing "human" honey treatment in Oman Agent Ghost, who was shot and left to die in a garbage dump in Africa Death-Defying Instagrammer, who stepped on the tail of the world's sixth most venomous snake in Australia to take a better photo Human Pet, who became a prince's prisoner in Qatar Imperial CEO, who made a minion fly twelve hours to Paris from Abu Dhabi to buy clean underwear Gorilla Doll, who broke the rules of visiting Rwandan gorillas and got dragged up the side of a volcano Strange Tales of World Travel presents unforgettable stories that celebrate the unique character of countries around the globe-and the distinctive characters that make travel endlessly intriguing and exhilarating.

Energy lawyer Ray Culver is recruited by the CIA to move to the Middle East, where his legal business trips serve as cover for CIA missions. Ray develops a theory that behind the public face of Al Queda is a powerful member of the Saudi royal family, code-named the Camel Spider. Under the guise of his travels as a lawyer, he hunts the Camel Spider's network from Pakistan to North Africa, uncovering layers of deception. Ray learns that the men behind Al Queda have economic motives, as well as religious ones. When his cover is blown, Ray finds himself caught in the power struggle among oil producing nations in the Middle East. Are the terrorists motivated by religion - or the price of oil?

International Energy Development examines the issues that energy companies encounter in acquiring, managing and divesting projects around the world.

Cameron and Macie appear to be the perfect couple. He's a rising legal star. She's closing international deals for a Fortune 100 company. They have it all. A beautiful daughter. An enviable lifestyle. But everything can change in a moment. Through circumstances beyond Cameron's control, conventionality becomes desperation, and he finds himself in Alaska disposing of a body. Afterwards, Cameron and Macie struggle to conceal their lies. Then it all comes undone.

In The Law Review, attorney S. Scott Gaille sets the record straight about how lawyers get their start. Himself a graduate of the law school at the University of Chicago, he writes knowingly about the pressure, the collision of exigency and idealism, the cost to personal relationships, as the brightest, if not the best, begin their legal studies.

Grayson has just started law school at the University of Chicago with dreams of a prestigious legal career and one day running for public office. The gateway to these opportunities is membership on the exclusive legal journal, the Law Review. While vying for membership on the journal, Grayson becomes romantically involved with one of its leading editors, the elusive Aris. He soon finds himself in the middle of the editors' ever escalating fight for control of the Law Review -- and for Aris's bed. When one of the editors is found lying in a pool of blood, Grayson realizes that he knows too much. Torn between conflicting loyalties, he finds his promising future, and even his life, in jeopardy. The Law Review examines obsession in its many forms, and the price that some are willing to pay to become a member of society's most lettered class.