We live in an era when real-estate salespeople are regarded with a wariness once reserved for snake-oil vendors.

It’s fair to presume that most people, on hearing the 45th and 47th US President threaten to take over Greenland, dismissed his words as just another kite-flying exercise in distraction to whet the insatiable appetites of his MAGA acolytes.

But, as things almost a year into his second term, they would have been wise to remember that Donald Trump and his father were both dominant players in the world’s richest property market.

The US Geological Survey has estimated that the area off Greenland’s east coast contains 31 billion “barrels of oil equivalent” with perhaps half again as much off the west coast. With a barrel of Brent crude fetching about $US63, 47 billion barrels is worth almost A$3 trillion. So when the gerontocrat that Democrats love to hate says, “Drill, baby, drill”, as he so often does, we should be sitting up and paying attention.

Dr Elizabeth Buchanan.

In this, her third book, Australian defence strategist Dr Elizabeth Buchanan weaves a spellbinding tale that is, in essence, a real-estate thriller based on a battle to possess an island the size of Western Australia (albeit one that bulks as large as Europe on a world map).

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