NOTE: THIS BOOK IS TYPESET ALMOST ENTIRELY IN A BLACKLETTER FONT, and uses fonts as small as 2pts. The cover design is what the inside of the book looks like. bellum iustum caveat emptor et cetera. SYNOPSIS A muckracker’s picture of the oil industry beginning in southern California, and taking in the world struggle. A complex pattern of present-day life into which are woven oil magnates and labor leaders, financiers and Soviet agents, “holy rollers” and Socialist agitators, moving picture stars and producers, flappers and grandmothers of flappers; a swiftly moving panorama of business and politics, jazz dancing and evangelism, love and war, diplomatic intrigue, labor strikes, jails, and revolutionary martyrdom. Accolades A novel of Southern California. Floyd Dell : “I can hardly tear myself away from it. Tremendously absorbing. It can’t help making an impression on America. I love the book for all the richness of life that has gone into it, the immense range of its interest, the eagle-swooping vistas of American life; for the new tolerence it displays, for its tremendous story-telling capacity, its Tolstoyan ease in grasping a huge theme. A splendid novel . . . truly epic.” ​¶​ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle : “I was amazed at the power of the book.” ​¶​ Clarence Darrow : “Few novels have impressed me as much as ‘Oil!’ ”