Cuba Libre

By Elmore Leonard

Subjects: Cuba, fiction, Cuba, history, 1895-, Spanish-American War, 1898, Spanish-american war, 1898, fiction, Large type books, Illegal arms transfers in fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Cuba in fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, Americans in fiction, Fiction, men's adventure, Arms transfers, Americans, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, History, Illegal arms transfers, Travel, Spanish-American War, 1898 in fiction

Description: Leonard's famous "Tropical Western" delivers a smuggler, a sugar baron, and one smart, pistol-hot lady to Havana during the Spanish-American War.War in Cuba isn't Ben Tyler's concern. Still, sailing mares and guns into Havana harbor in 1898 - right past the submerged wreckage of the U.S. battleship Maine - may not be the most intelligent thing the recently prison-sprung horse wrangler ever did. Neither is shooting one of the local Guardia, though the pompous peacock deserved it. Now Tyler's sitting tight in a vermin-infested Cuban stockade waiting to face a firing squad. But he's not dying until he gets the money he's owed from a two-timing American sugar baron. And there's one smart, pistol-hot lady at the rich man's side who could help Ben get everything he's got rightfully coming... even when the whole damn island's going straight to hell.