Djibouti - Leonard Elmore

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Dara Barr, documentary filmmaker, is at the top of her game. She''s covered neo-Nazis and post-Katrina New Orleans, but now she''s looking for an even bigger challenge.So Dara and her right-hand man Xavier head to Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa, to tackle modern-day pirates. But they soon find a whole lot more than they bargained for and quickly learn that almost no one in Djibouti is what he seems. A mob of colourful characters patrols the seas, including a pirate chief with a taste for fine cars and an Oxford-educated sheik with scams of his own. And then there''s the gun-toting Texan billionaire Billy Wynn, and James Russell, an American al-Qaeda convert who wants to blow up something big. As hijacked tankers line up like floating bombs, Dara and Xavier know it''s time for a showdown . ''A vibrant contemporary thriller - exhilarating read, full of fun'' Sunday Times''Deliciously to-the-point dialogue . . . highly entertaining'' Independent on Sunday