Book description
Dara 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 African-American called
Xavier - head to Djibouti on the Horn of Africa to tackle modern-day
pirates. Once they start filming, they 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 in fine cars, and an Oxford-educated sheikh
with scams of his own. And then there's the gun-toting playboy Billy
Wynn: Texan billionaire, collector of supermodels, and law unto himself.
But even he hasn't reckoned on an appearance from 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. But which guy is going to get the prize - and what
will he have to do to get it? Elmore Leonard has written more than
forty books during his highly successful writing career. Many of his
novels have been made into movies, including GET SHORTY, OUT OF SIGHT
and BE COOL.
