Djibouti
Elmore Leonard, read by Tim Cain, Harper Audio, unabridged, seven CDs, 8 hrs., $34.99 ISBN 978-0-06-200850-3
In Leonard's new novel, Oscar-winning documentarian Dara Barr and her 73-year-old assistant, Xavier LeBo, travel to the Horn of Africa to film Somali pirates. They get exciting footage, but Leonard, almost perversely, provides much of the action as exposition, with the filmmakers safe and sound in hotels or on yachts, discussing their adventures over champagne. This is not good news for thriller lovers, since thrills are in short supply. But it's tremendous fun for those who can't get enough of the author's snappy patter. For Tim Cain, it's a chance to demonstrate his ability to deal with pages of witty dialogue, and he shines, demonstrating quick vocal shifts, wide-ranging accents, and well-thought-out pacing. The result is a smoothly efficient, entertaining drawing room comedy in which not even terrorism is taken too seriously. A Morrow hardcover. (Nov.)
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Reviewed on: 02/07/2011
Genre: Audio
Analog Audio Cassette - 978-1-4417-6413-3
Compact Disc - 979-8-200-71469-8
Compact Disc - 978-1-4551-3623-0
Compact Disc - 978-1-4417-6414-0
Downloadable Audio - 978-0-06-200603-5
Downloadable Audio - 978-0-06-206803-3
Hardcover - 288 pages - 978-0-06-173517-2
Hardcover - 279 pages - 978-0-297-85672-6
MP3 CD - 979-8-200-71470-4
MP3 CD - 978-1-4417-6416-4
Open Ebook - 1 pages - 978-1-4417-6418-8
Other - 288 pages - 978-0-06-201534-1
Paperback - 384 pages - 978-0-06-200831-2
Paperback - 288 pages - 978-0-06-173521-9
Paperback - 279 pages - 978-0-7538-2905-9
Pre-Recorded Audio Player - 978-1-4417-6419-5
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