for one last stop in Málaga, Spain, before they fly home. She has arranged for a huge dinner for their new friends, Harry Delaney and Mike Williams and their families. During the celebration, Harry informs Maddie that he has a flight into Djibouti the next day. Since learning about Harry's base in Djibouti, Maddie has wanted to visit the North African City. She convinces Jim it will be an adventure of a lifetime.
Little does Maddie know that the blowing desert sand has telegraphed their arrival in Djibouti. When she realizes Jim has gone missing while he stepped out to pick up their rental car, the first phone call she makes is to Luz back home to ask for help.
Peter Duke is a Canadian author. He resides and writes in a small college town in the Province of Ontario, Canada.
Peter Duke's gypsy spirit has taken him to some strange places in the world, but now he's content to limit his adventures to riding a motorcycle and whatever he might encounter when he's on the road. He's worked in bike shops doing odd jobs from planning and putting on rides down Mexico way, taking care of computer networking and security, and to picking up and delivering motorcycles from the L.A. basin to Las Vegas, among other things.
He's ridden over a lot of North America at one time or another from Canada to Mexico, and from Atlantic to Pacific. By far his favorite ride is up and down the length of the Baja Peninsula, where the people are friendly, the sun always shines and it’s warm in the winter.
Of everything that he has experienced in his all-too-brief life, Africa is perhaps the greatest enigma. It's an amazing continent, rich in people, nature and resources, yet poor in all of those areas, too.