Cuba Libre - Softcover

Leonard, Elmore

3.66

4,771 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140277145 ISBN 13: 9780140277142

Publisher: Penguin, 1999

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Set in Cuba on the eve of the Spanish-American War at the turn of the century, CUBA LIBRE is a mix of high adventure, romance - and the trademark Leonard dead-on dialogue. Ben Tyler arrives with a string of horses to sell - cover for a boatload of guns he's running to the Cuban insurgents. Pretty soon he finds himself up to his neck in trouble. "Wonderfully done" Grey Gowrie, Daily Telegraph "An adventure story of the highest order" Christopher Matthew, Daily Mail

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An absolute master. --The Detroit News"

From the Back Cover:

War in Cuba isn't Ben Tyler's concern. Still, sailing mares and guns into Havana harbor in 1898--right past the submerged wreckage of the U.S. battleship Maine--may not be the smartest thing the recently prison-sprung horse wrangler ever did. Neither is shooting one of the local Guardia, though the pompous peacock deserved it. Now Tyler's sitting tight in a vermin-infested Cuban stockade waiting to face a firing squad. But he's not dying until he gets the money he's owed from a two-timing American sugar baron. And there's one smart, pistol-hot lady at the rich man's side who could help Ben get everything he's got rightfully coming...even when the whole damn island's going straight to hell.

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