Extreme heat is the Gulf’s quietest emergency. It leaves the buildings standing, the lights on and the shops open — and does its damage inward, into kidneys, sleep, and the mind, unequally across the bodies that meet it. This book follows a single ordinary afternoon, from the cooled supermarket to the road crew working outside it, to ask how the region came to live at the edge of what the body can survive.
It is written for the intelligent general reader — a student, a clinician, a parent — with the full scholarship kept underneath for anyone who wants to go down. The aim is not to alarm but to make a familiar thing visible: to show who the cool protects, who it leaves outside, and what a survivable hot city might yet require.
Inside
I. The survivable limit · II. The two temperatures · III. The ledger of thirst · IV. The machine that makes the heat · V. The tower and the wind · VI. The night that no longer cools · VII. The survivable city