Bittersweet House Press
Havana Queen
Havana Queen
Couldn't load pickup availability
Cuba roils with political unrest as Fidel and Raul Castro sink deeper into dementia and failing health. In a desperate ploy to save the communist regime, sultry Cuban spymaster Larisa Montilla takes on the CIA in a tit-for-tat shadow war of assassination. As the bodies pile up, FBI Agent Nick Castillo defies orders and travels clandestinely to Havana to save would-be defector Colonel Henrique Marcial from joining the body count.
But Nick gets more than he bargained for. He falls into a trap set by Montilla, Fidel's heir to power. When torture fails to pry secrets from Nick, the cunning and beautiful Montilla applies the power of seduction - and he succumbs. But Montilla's leverage over Nick is matched by his discovery of a deep secret in her past, leading to a war of wits. Nick escapes and joins Col. Marcial's growing guerrilla force to oust the Castro regime.
Washington calls Nick back to ferret out a web of spies deep inside the U.S. government which Havana has patiently built up over the years -- traitors who are hemorrhaging official secrets. But he must navigate a wilderness of mirrors that leads him to an assassination plot against the Castros' No. 1 enemy - the President of the United States.
Steeped in the world of government secrets, with service in Cuba and Gitmo, the author makes you feel like you've been cleared into a Top Secret program, confident that you have the inside information.
Share
