A review by harinid
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman by Ben Hubbard

3.0

Ben Hubbard's biography on MBS feels a bit too premature. While the text is littered with interesting anecdotes, it reads more as a scattered collection of articles rather than a well edited, single novel developing many facets of a character. The book, expectedly, spends a lot of time on the Khashoggi murder and in that does a better job of building Khashoggi's narrative rather than that of the young prince. As the book keeps coming back to Khashoggi, MBS' characterisation gets a bit repetitive and one dimensional. Nonetheless, there are a lot of interesting nuggets on the prince which any student of politics/ international relations would find extremely interesting.