Djibouti (Elmore Leonard)

A thriller centered on an American woman making a documentary about Somali pirates, who gets ties up in an al Quaeda plot to blow up a ship loaded with liquified natural gas. One man in particular, an African American who turns to Islam and terrorism in prison because it gives him a chance to shoot people and blow things up, becomes her nemesis, and the last part of the book is about trying to find him before he manages to find her and kill her. The dialogue is excellent and the characters real and intriguing, but I couldn't really get into a sense of danger. Perhaps this is because I read it as an e-book, on a tiny screen. I still don't know how this affects my response to a story.