Djibouti - Hardcover

Leonard, Elmore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297856723 ISBN 13: 9780297856726

Verlag: W&N, 2011

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Críticas

arresting comeback with a vibrant contemporary thriller - exhilarating read, full of fun, energy and offbeat narrative ploys. (JOHN DUGDALE SUNDAY TIMES - 30 January 2011)

Ridiculously enjoyable book. (DAVID SEXTON EVENING STANDARD -3 February 2011)

the 85-year-old writer reminds us just why his critical standing is so high.... Leonard has found his mojo again, and has us in the palm of his hand. (BARRY FORSHAW INDEPENDENT - 25 February 2011)

Praises Leonard as 'the world's greatest living crime writer', and gives the novel a five star rating. (HENRY SUTTON DAILY MIRROR 4 February 2011)

energetic and exhilarating thriller (SUNDAY TIMES - 6 February 2011)

still shows more energy in his writing than many authors half his age... As usual, Leonard gives you plenty of bangs for your buck. (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH - 13 February 2011)

in his 44th novel he is refraining from just making carbon copies of his old masterpieces and instead takes the risk of sailing into rather more unfamiliar waters (SUNDAY EXPRESS - 13 February 2011)

well-researched...superb characters... a sense of transcendent pace, a fleeing away of time to which everything else is subordinated. (GILES FODEN THE GUARDIAN - 12 February 2011)

'At 85, Elmore Leonard has lost none of his mastery of zinging dialogue and credible characterisation - this time in a particularly exotic setting." (THE SCOTSMAN - 30 January 2011)

there's a nod to screen adaptation in Elmore Leonard's Somali piracy yarn (THE FINANCIAL TIMES - 20 February 2011)

Reseña del editor

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?

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• Verlag: W&N
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0297856723
• ISBN 13: 9780297856726
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288