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A STEADY BEAT OF DANGER PURSUES the adventurous, money-hungry heroine of Roger King's intriguing new novel, A Girl from Zanzibar (Books & Co./Helen Marx). As she moves from her first, tentatively entrepreneurial steps in her native Zanzibar to significantly higher-powered (and ominously shady) wheelings and dealings in London (home to a thriving community of illegal immigrants), to prison, and then to the seemingly inevitable expat destination, the States, Marcella D'Souza reinvents herself again and again. Marcella is the product of a place that has seen wave after wave of colonizers and conquerors, and her genes reflect that stormy history. Her search for ...