Description

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

Publisher Review

an exhilarating read, full of fun, energy, and offbeat ploys -- John Dugdale * SUNDAY TIMES * Classic no-holds-barred Leonard * DAILY TELEGRAPH * An interesting change of locale for Leonard and a thrilling novel. * CATHOLIC HERALD * Leonard is still the master of diamond-sharp dialogue, stylish prose and likeable, believeable bad guys. * SUNDAY BUSINESS POST * Leonard tells the story with his usual swagger, and it might be an updated Casablanca. * EVENING STANDARD * The dialogue fizzes, the plot twists right up to the final paragraph and everything and everyone is cool and sexy * THE TIMES * A superior piece of pulp fiction. -- Colin Waters * SUNDAY HERALD *