I don’t have a nice thing to say about this. It was written in the early 2000s and does not stand up to 2020s standards.

Upholds white colonialism of Africa. Upholds wars in the Middle East and the use of “defense contractors”. The part of this book that takes place in Africa, all Black people described to be either bad people or women who work as sex workers. 

The main character is the worst. She’s horrible to her parents. 

The author needed to choose a plot and stick with it instead of flipping between the hijacking and the relationship between Lilly/Jess/Peter etc