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What did omar tell joan he wanted her to do in africa?


And what did he really want her to do/write? Also where was the setting in the begining? Was it France?

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Yep, the start of the scene with the yacht (and subsquent explosion) is filmed in the gorgeous village of Villefranche Sur Mer, in the South of France (near Nice). I am not sure where the book signing engagement is immediately after this scene but would guess around the same sort of location.

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He wanted her to write his "biography." The heroes in romance novels are often dashing, charismatic leading men and he wanted her to romanticize him in a similar way. He didn't want a real biographer who'd be set on telling the truth. He wanted to create a powerful, epic image of himself and probably figured that a romance novelist would be useful because they're great at creating the kind of embellishments that he wanted.

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