Anyone with an interest in UAE history in the 1960s and 1970s, particularly the activities of the TOS and the Defence Forces that sprang up as the Trucial States morphed into the UAE, would find a new book interesting; it's by someone who was right there at the coal-face throughout most of the period, latterly in very senior roles.
I have no financial interest in it! I do know the author well, but this is an unsolicited recommendation.
I just think that it's a good read, and answers a number of questions about what really happened behind the scenes at that time.
Here's a link for anyone who is interested.
PS......Sqn Ldr Jim Tims (Timms?) was presumably the same Jim Tim(m)s who joined and became a senior officer in the Abu Dhabi Defence Force?