Outcast - Softcover

Latour, Jose

Softcover

ISBN 10: 006095941X ISBN 13: 9780060959418

Publisher: Perennial, 2002

Synopsis

Down-and-out in the slums of Havana, Elliot Steil is resigned to his life, until a mysterious stranger offers him a chance to escape, and Elliot is left floating in the waters of the Florida Straits, about to be thrown back into the chaos he thought he left in Cuba. Reprint.

About this title

Review:

‘José Latour is a master of Cuban Noir, a combination of ’50s unsentimentality and the harsh realities of life in a socialist paradise.’
Martin Cruz Smith

‘Cuba has been a closed world for most of us for decades now, and Cuban crime fiction has remained a well-kept secret. It’s alive and well, and brilliantly represented by José Latour. Don’t miss this one – it’s terrific!’
Lawrence Block

‘With a sharp prose style and good pace, Latour keeps the suspense up and delivers some real surprises’ Anthea Lawson, The Times

‘Dark, exciting, finally triumphant narrative which offers not the genial buzz of good times remembered, but the visceral thrill of bad times overcome’ Philip Oakes, Literary Review

From the Back Cover:

"Cuba has been a closed world for most of us for decades now, and Cuban crime fiction has remained a well-kept secret. It's alive and very well, and brilliantly represented by Jose Latour. Don't miss this one, it's terrific!"
LAWRENCE BLOCK

Elliot Steil, the son of a Cuban mother and a U.S. labourer stationed on the island before the revolution, works as a down-and-out school teacher in Havana. Quietly resigned to the tedium of daily life, Elliot, like many of his fellow Havanans, has put any aspirations for a better future to one side. But his hopes are rekindled when he's offered a 'once in a lifetime' opportunity by a mysterious visitor to the island who claims to have known his father.

Persuaded to leave Cuba, Elliot soon finds he has involved himself in something more complex and dangerous than he could ever have imagined. Surviving the ordeal of the Florida Straits, he embarks on a search that will draw him deep into the deceit and corruption of the Miami underworld, forcing him to confront a past he has spent most of his adult life trying to forget.

A smart, multi-voiced, multi-layered crime novel, 'Outcast' combines cultural critique, personal discovery and explosive violence.

About this edition

• Publisher: Perennial
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 006095941X
• ISBN 13: 9780060959418
• Binding: Paperback