Seasoned Leonard readers will see some grays poking through-this at times reads like a quite good imitation of an Elmore Leonard novel-but it still beats the pants off of most of the competition. Everyone has an angle or two, and once the plots stumble through an awkward first third, Leonard's hallmark breakneck pacing, crackling dialogue, and scalpel-sharp prose kick in. Rogues they encounter include a 'whirlwind Texas entrepreneur' sailing around the world a crooked diplomat in league with a charismatic pirate, both eyeing a payday and a pair of kidnapped al-Qaeda operatives, one an American citizen with a bounty on his head. /rebates/2fservlet2fBookDetailsP元fbi3d31375441974&. Touched by the story, he wrote a play based on the novel for his fifth-grade classroom, using the desks as 'No-Man's-Land. Leonard's narrative style means that his readers never know anything that his characters don't participate in or observe. But when they are separated by long stretches that just don't work, as in Djibouti, the thumb has to turn down. Dara Barr, a documentary filmmaker newly arrived in Djibouti to make a film about pirates as a follow-up to her Oscar-winning Katrina documentary, and Dara's savvy friend and fixer, Xavier, stumble into a thicket of intrigue before the two are on the open water. Elmore Leonard became interested in writing in 1935, after reading a serialization of All Quiet on the Western Front in the Detroit Times. Any Elmore Leonard novel has individual pages or short sections that are as good as anything he has ever written. Leonard (Road Dogs) goes exotic with this eventually killer story of contemporary piracy set on the horn of Africa. Djibouti: A Novel Soft Cover Leonard, Elmore Published by William Morrow Paperbacks (2011) ISBN 10: 0061735213 ISBN 13: 9780061735219 New Soft Cover Quantity: 20 Seller: booksXpress (Freehold, NJ, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Soft Cover.

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