A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old friends.
Crossbones is a fascinating look at individuals caught in the maw of zealotry, profiteering and political conflict, by one of Africa\'s most highly acclaimed international writers..
As the uneasy quiet shatters and the city turns into a battle zone, the brothers experience firsthand the derailments of war.
Jeebleh leaves Mogadiscio only a few hours before the borders are breached and raids descend from land and sea.
The brothers\' efforts draw them closer to Taxliil and deeper into the fabric of the country, even as Somalis brace themselves for an Ethiopian invasion.
Ahl is searching for his stepson, Taxliil, who has vanished from Minneapolis, apparently recruited by an imam allied to Somalia\'s rising religious insurgency.
Meanwhile, Malik\'s brother, Ahl, has arrived in Puntland, the region notorious as a pirates\' base.
What greets them at first is not the chaos Jeebleh remembers, however, but an eerie calm enforced by ubiquitous white-robed figures bearing whips.
He is accompanied by his son-in-law, Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region\'s ongoing turmoil.
A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old friends
