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Ex-Library Hard Cover-VG/VG-Book and dust jacket are clean and tight with light wear-Ex-Library.

Ex-Library Hard Cover-VG/VG-Book and dust jacket are clean and tight with light wear-Ex-Library.

Size: 6x0x9; Kelly James has been an international private investigator on

Size: 6x0x9; Kelly James has been an international private investigator on five continents, but it was in Africa that she realized her "greatest adventures and most memorable insights into the human experience." Given the scope of her work--investigating murders, missing persons, safari accidents, and tangled multinational affairs in the face of such obstacles as lions, famine, kidnappers, and tribal warfare--James takes adventure and insight into territory barely imaginable to the rest of us. The result is a stunning quartet of tales of her most memorable adventures. In the opening story, "Detour, " James travels to Mombasa, 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 just barely survives renegade Turkana warriors, 120-degree heat, starvation, crocodiles, broken ribs, and a head injury in 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 also in living with almost nothing and in the most hostile of environments. She is also tough on her clients. However, just when you think you're reading nothing more than a very good mystery, complete with colorful 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.

Book Octavo, hardcover, near fine in VG gray pictorial dj. First Edition,

Book Octavo, hardcover, near fine in VG gray pictorial dj. First Edition, First Printing. Clean, unmarked. 235 deckled pages. In this autobiographical series of seven moving short stories based on her experiences in Africa, Kelly James draws us into the mystery and adventure that she experienced. navigating among warring political factions, poachers, tribesmen, witchdoctors, prostitutes, the poverty stricken, and the sick; she exposes us to a world where truth is ephemeral, where compassion, though frail, still seeps through the grit and dust. In this, her debut book, she captures a journey into her own "heart of darkness."

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. : William Morrow & Co, 2001. First edition,

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. : William Morrow & Co, 2001. First edition, first printing of this memoir of a female private investigator's extensive travels in Africa. Light orange boards with black cloth spine, illustrated dustjacket. The book is in near fine condition with some very gentle rubbing to the spine foot, remainder mark at lower edge, no other names or markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped and is in very good condition with some light shel woil to the light grey backgrouns, minimal edge rubbing. First Edition, First Pinting. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.