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Cuba Libre [158-011-4.3]

By: Elmore Leonard

Category: fiction history

Synopsis:

Set on the eve of the Spanish-American War, Elmore Leonard's
electrifying novel takes off like a shot. A spellbinding journey into
the heart and soul of the Cuban revolution of a hundred years ago, Cuba
I^ibre is an explosive mix of high adventure, history brought to life,
and a honey of a love story--all with the dead-on dialogue and
unforgettable characters that mark Elmore Leonard as an American
original. Just three days after the sinking of the battleship Maine in
Havana harbor, Ben Tyler arrives with a string of horses to sell--cover
for a boatload of guns he's running to Cuban insurgents, risking a
firing squad if he's caught. This cowboy's first day ashore sets the
pace Wn me BnBne American planter, Roland Boudreaux, who's making a
killing in Cuba ... meets the man's sparkly New Orleans-born mistress,
Amelia Brown, and falls in love ... makes an enemy of a terrorizing
Guardia Civil officer named Tavalera, a friend of a mysterious old
Cuban, Victor Fuentes ... is forced into a gunfight and thrown in
prison, Tavalera determined to nail him as a spy. Tyler has done
time in the past for robbing banks, but never in a place like Morro
Castle. America is about to declare war on Spain, and if Tyler doesn't
manage to get out very soon, he's a dead man. How his escape comes
about, with surprising help, is the high point from which the plot
takes off on a train ride across Cuba, with Tyler and Amelia looking
for more than love, a lot more--a chance to snatch a bundle of
H&'^oudreaux's cash, if they can pull it off But who can you trust? ^1
Everyone's a schemer in this one. Leonard breaks new ground in
this rip roaring jaunt into history, packed with all the twists, turns,
sly plot, and wicked wit his fans have come to expect of the writer who
has redefined the art of the novel.


Delacorte Press

Published by

Delacorte Press

Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.

1540 Broadway

New York, New York ]0036

Copyright 1998 by Elmore Leonard, Inc.