Djibouti is a 2010 crime fiction work by American writer Elmore Leonard.

[1] In the novel, Dara Barr is an "Oscar-winning documentary film maker" and her "6 feet 6, age 72, African American, über-cool"[2] confidant and assistant Xavier LeBo arrive in Djibouti to document piracy around the Horn of Africa.

[3] Writing in The Guardian, Giles Foden described the subject matter of the book as "well researched and not as improbable as it might seem.

"[4] Writing in The Independent, Barry Forshaw noted that the fictional young filmmaker and her older adviser might resemble the production of Katherine Bigelow's 2008 film The Hurt Locker.

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