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Dara, too, is a departure from the Leonard norm. Dara Barr, a documentary filmmaker from New Orleans, touches down in Djibouti in an Air France plane. What’s up, you might ask, with the Sir David Lean-ish title? For 50 years, Elmore Leonard has specialized in hoodlums who ply their trade in tacky, unexotic locales: guys like Chili Palmer, the Miami loan shark whose moviemaking aspirations take him to ­B-list Hollywood in “Get Shorty” (1990), and Stick Stickley, the Detroit ex-con whose heisting aspirations take him to the gutter-ball precincts of Chili’s Miami in “Stick” (1983).Ĭan “Djibouti” really be set in the tiny East African nation that abuts Somalia and the Gulf of Aden? If the past is any precedent, it’s more likely that Leonard is using said nation’s irresistibly suggestive name as the pretext for some leering character’s off-color heinie joke.īut two paragraphs in, it becomes clear that the African setting is for real.