Dara Barr, documentary filmmaker, is at the top of her game. She's covered Bosnian women and post-Katrina New Orleans, but now she's looking for a bigger challenge. So she and her right-hand-man, Xavier head to Djibouti on the Horn of Africa to tackle modern-day pirates. But 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'
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Elmore Leonard es un clásico contemporáneo de la novela negra norteamericana. Nacido en Nueva Orleáns, en 1925, tras servir en las fuerzas navales durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, estudió Literatura en la Universidad de Detroit. Al terminar la carrera se dedicó a la publicidad hasta finales de los años sesenta. A partir de ese momento se dedicó por entero a la creación literaria. Su obra supera la cuarentena de novelas, muchas de las cuales han sido llevadas al cine con éxito por directores como Tarantino o los hermanos Coen. Entre los numerosos galardones cosechados en su prolífica carrera literaria cabe destacar el premio Cartier Diamond Dagger 2006, otorgado por la Asociación de Escritores de Novela Negra