![]() ![]() ![]() While searching for the story within the story for their film, they meet bad guys pretending to be good guys, danger, and al-Qaeda. ![]() ![]() I like the plot: Barr and LeBo embark on their next film that will venture into the convoluted and dangerous world of modern-day pirates high-jacking merchant ships on the high seas near Djibouti on the Horn of Africa. I like the main characters: award winning 30-something documentary filmmaker Dara Barr and her sidekick Xavier LeBo, a tall and older African renaissance man. It’s where I quit, straining through one last sentence before hesitating, then sighing and slowly, but firmly, shutting the book, setting it down and looking away, as if the book were calling to me, “What did I do? Can’t we work this out? Don’t you leave me!” Even after 114 pages of commitment – every book deserves 100 pages - I was disinterested in finishing this tale. I’m not highlighting this page number because it’s where the novel reached a thrilling turning point or where I earmarked the top corner, as I often do after reading an inspiring phrase I want to remember. Of Elmore Leonard’s latest novel “Djibouti.” ![]()
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