Havana [first edition]

A New York Times Bestseller Havana, the sultry spring of 1953: gambling is expensive, sex is cheap, and death is free. In Cuba, in 1953, Havana gleams with possibility. The Caribbean is fast becoming a strategic Cold War hub, and Soviet intelligence has taken Castro under its wing. The CIA's response is to send the one man capable of eliminating Castro: the legendary gunfighter and ex-Marine hero Earl Swagger. In Cuba, Earl finds himself up to his neck in treacherous ambiguity, where the old rules about honor and duty don't apply, and where Earl's target seems to have more guns and good luck than anyone else in Cuba.Aobut the author: Stephen Hunter is a film critic for the Washington Post, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize (2002) and the American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for Distinguished Writing in Criticism (1998). He has written eleven novels, including Pale Horse Coming, Hot Springs, Time to Hunt, Black Light, Dirty White Boys, The Day Before Midnight, and Point of Impact.