Djibouti

New York Times Bestselling Author Elmore Leonard brings his trademark wit and inimitable style to this twisting gripping-and sometimes playful-tale of modern-day piracyDara Barr documentary filmmaker is at the top of her game. She’s covered Bosnian women Neo-Nazis and post-Katrina New Orleans (for which she won an Oscar) but now she’s looking for an even bigger challenge. So she and her right-hand-man-a six-foot-six 72-year-old African-American man named Xavier-head to Djibouti on the Horn of Africa to tackle modern-day pirates. Once they start filming though they find a whole lot more than they bargained for. They quickly learn that almost nobody in Djibouti is what he seems. A whole mob of colorful characters patrols the surrounding seas including a pirate commander who’s more like Robin Hood than Captain Hook; a cultured diplomat with dubious connections; a rich playboy who knows more than he lets on; and an American-born terrorist with lofty ambitions. But then there’s the recently hijacked LNG (liquid natural gas) tanker: just the thing an aspiring terrorist is looking for to blow up something big. What Dara and Xavier don’t know though is who’s going to be the one to get the prize and what they’re going to do for it.