Cross Country

You got it! Another Patterson Cross masterpiece. Instead of telling you about the plot, I'm going to tell you about how this book paints Africa. Cross goes to Africa. He immediately needs to give someone money as a bribe to explain anything to him. Then he gets kidnapped. By people that seem like the police. Then he is shoved in a jail where he is deprived water, tortured, and completely mistreated. He is released through a bribe. Not after they stole all his money. He then travels to other parts of Africa where he must bribe people at every road stop. Then he is brutally attacked by a teenage who works for a big time mob boss / diamond smuggler / African drug lord. The teenagers beat him up and almost kill him, thankfully he escapes the teenagers. He meets a journalist. The journalist's entire family is murdered because of her story. Then she and Cross are brutally beaten and taken back to the hell jail. Africa and the American embassy kick him out of the continent for causing too much trouble.

This paints a bad picture to me.