In the opening story, "Detour", James travels to Mombassa, Kenya, to determine whether the death of a remarkable coffee plantation owner was suicide or murder and to hunt for a missing inheritance. Along the way she discovers a mysterious, top-secret school in the jungle. On a "pleasure" trip to Rwanda to see mountain gorillas, accompanied by a morose American teenager, James is caught in gorilla poaching crossfire and faces the sort of impossible questions Africa so frequently poses--whose life is more valuable, that of an African child or a baby gorilla? In Beira, a coastal city in Mozambique, she and her friend David are given one day to search for David's missing mother and sister while the Russians pull out, guerrilla fighters approach, and a mass demonstration circles the wreckage. And in the final dramatic story, James barely survives renegade Turkana warriors, 120 degree heat, starvation, crocodiles, broken ribs and a head injury, on the search for the lost Dr Kali, an English-educated Turkana witchdoctor. James is truly an audacious explorer--skilled not only in a number of languages but in living with almost nothing and in the most hostile of environments. She is also tough on her clients--one even questions if she is really a woman. However, just when you think you're reading nothing more than a very good mystery , complete with colourful international characters and whodunit conundrums, accompanied by a woman long on smarts and balls but short on compassion, she thrusts you squarely into the heart of Africa, where it is impossible not to feel deeply . These are haunting stories written by a remarkable woman who knows not only how to live a life of risk, but how to tell a terrific story. --Lesley Reed
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