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Description for Havana
Paperback. High summer in Cuba, 1953, and Havana gleams with possibility. Flush with booming casinos, sex and drugs, Havana is a lucrative paradise for everyone. Of course, where there's paradise, trouble can't be far behind. Trouble, in this case, makes its entrance in the terrifically charismatic form of a young revolutionary named Fidel Castro. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 110 x 26. Weight in Grams: 234. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
High summer in Cuba, 1953, and Havana gleams with possibility. Flush with booming casinos, sex, and drugs, Havana is a lucrative paradise for everyone from the Mafia and United Fruit to pimps, porn-makers, and anyone looking to grab a piece of the action - including the Cuban government, which naturally honours the interests of its old ally, the United States of America. Of course, where there's paradise, trouble can't be far behind. Trouble, in this case, makes its entrance in the terrifically charismatic and silver-tongued form of a young revolutionary named Fidel Castro. The Caribbean is fast becoming a strategic ... Read more
High summer in Cuba, 1953, and Havana gleams with possibility. Flush with booming casinos, sex, and drugs, Havana is a lucrative paradise for everyone from the Mafia and United Fruit to pimps, porn-makers, and anyone looking to grab a piece of the action - including the Cuban government, which naturally honours the interests of its old ally, the United States of America. Of course, where there's paradise, trouble can't be far behind. Trouble, in this case, makes its entrance in the terrifically charismatic and silver-tongued form of a young revolutionary named Fidel Castro. The Caribbean is fast becoming a strategic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099471448
SKU
KKD0005179
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter, film critic for the Washington Post and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for criticism, is the author of twelve novels. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Reviews for Havana
Hunter is in the front rank of thriller novelists
People
American hardboiled at its very best, full of taciturn and stoical characters and plotting in explosive overdrive
The Times
Stories of passion, guilt and redemption that jump right off the page and smack the reader clean between the eyes
Independent on Sunday
People
American hardboiled at its very best, full of taciturn and stoical characters and plotting in explosive overdrive
The Times
Stories of passion, guilt and redemption that jump right off the page and smack the reader clean between the eyes
Independent on Sunday