Diplomatic service at its best mixes adventure with duty, bestows education through service, and makes friends out of employees.
On the front cover, Bob is on his first trip to Timbuktu in his capacity as US Ambassador to Mali. With him are S kou, his driver en brousse as well as in the country's capital, Gaoussou, a senior embassy employee who accompanied Bob on official visits all over the country, and Barbara. Those grooves in the sand were,...