Subscriber Essay: The Rise of Adnan Khashoggi

So we had a request a while back for an essay on Adnan Khashoggi (1935-2017), the Saudi arms dealer and legendary partier. I confess that I knew who Khashoggi was but I hadn't really known any more about him than you could've learned from one of his obituaries, so this required a bit of extra research and that's why it's taken me so long to get to it. B…