The best the Middle East can hope for. Apparently.

No, really – I kid not.

It’s been a long time coming, but the personal memoir of Abdullah – scheduled for a May 2010 release – is so pompously preposterous in title that it is questionable whether the promised “secret, high-level negotiations that could soon transform our map of the Middle East” will live up to the hype.

Our Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril will be published in May 2010 as an Allen Lane hardback, simultaneously with the Viking edition in the US, and the Arabic publication by Dar El Shorouk.