The Informationist
 The Informationist by Taylor Stevens is the first novel in the Vanessa Michael Munroe series about a young woman raised in Cameroon as the daughter of American missionaries. She has a life-changing experience at the age of 15 when she takes up with an infamous gunrunner and his mercenary crew. Later in life she becomes a dealer of information sort of a private eye for the 21st century where she works for governments and corporations dealing in the specialized information of Central Africa.