{"product_id":"9781904738367","title":"Havana Fever","description":"\u003cp\u003e“The finest crime-fiction writer in the Spanish language...”\u003ci\u003e—The London Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Full of atmosphere and descriptions to savour, this is as much a life-affirming tribute to Havana as a fine novel of death and detection.”\u003ci\u003e—The Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Police work is not merely a vocation but a metaphor for a futile yearning to solve the island’s deepest crimes and misdemeanours.”—\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMario Conde has retired from the police force and makes a living trading in antique books. Havana is now flooded with dollars, populated by pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers, and other hunters of the night. In the book collection of a rich Cuban who fled after the fall of Batista, Conde discovers an article about Violeta del Rio, a beautiful bolero singer of the 1950s who disappeared mysteriously. A murder soon follows. This is a crime story set in today’s darker Cuba, but it is also an evocation of the Havana of Batista, the city of a hundred night clubs where the paths of Marlon Brando and Meyer Lansky crossed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProbably \u003cb\u003eLeonardo Padura\u003c\/b\u003e’s best book, \u003ci\u003eHavana Fever\u003c\/i\u003e is many things: a suspenseful crime novel, a cruel family saga, and an ode to literature and his beloved, ravaged island.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bitter Lemon Press, Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043652550896,"sku":"9781904738367","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781904738367_p0.jpg?v=1763614988","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781904738367","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}