- Gulf of Aden, Pirates, Piracy, Fiction
In a modern-day pirate story, ambitious documentary filmmaker Dara Barr and her right-hand man, Xavier LeBo, a 72-year-old African American seafarer, get more than they bargained for on the Horn of Africa.
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and unpretentious.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Elmore Leonard
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, Phoenix, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780062015341
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Elmore John Leonard Jr. was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures. *--Wikipedia*
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