Djibouti is a 2010 crime fiction work by American writer Elmore Leonard. [1]
In the novel, Dara Barr is an "Oscar-winning documentary film maker" and her "6 feet 6, age 72, African American, über-cool" [2] confidant and assistant Xavier LeBo arrive in djibouti to document piracy around the Horn of Africa. [3]
Writing in The Guardian, Giles Foden described the subject matter of the book as "well researched and not as improbable as it might seem." [4]
Writing in The Independent, Barry Forshaw noted that the fictional young film maker and her older adviser might resemble the production Katherine Bigelow's 2008 film The Hurt Locker. [3]
Djibouti is a 2010 crime fiction work by American writer Elmore Leonard. [1]
In the novel, Dara Barr is an "Oscar-winning documentary film maker" and her "6 feet 6, age 72, African American, über-cool" [2] confidant and assistant Xavier LeBo arrive in djibouti to document piracy around the Horn of Africa. [3]
Writing in The Guardian, Giles Foden described the subject matter of the book as "well researched and not as improbable as it might seem." [4]
Writing in The Independent, Barry Forshaw noted that the fictional young film maker and her older adviser might resemble the production Katherine Bigelow's 2008 film The Hurt Locker. [3]