Echoes of Havana - Softcover

Wells, Riccado

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ISBN 13: 9798235338203

Publisher: ND Publishing, 2026

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A gripping multi-POV Cold War thriller reimagining the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, spanning thirteen days that brought humanity to the brink of nuclear war. When U-2 reconnaissance uncovers hidden Soviet nuclear missiles in western Cuba, President John F. Kennedy forms a secret crisis council split between warmongers and diplomatic moderates. Parallel narratives follow Tom�s Rodr�guez, a disillusioned Cuban double agent codenamed PALOMA, who risks death smuggling ground photos of the warheads to CIA handlers in Mexico City; Moscow KGB colonel Alexei Serov, who watches the Kremlin's covert nuclear plan unravel; and the desperate crew of Soviet submarine B-59, who narrowly avoid launching a nuclear torpedo amid American naval harassment.

Tensions peak on Black Saturday, when a U.S. spy plane is shot down and Khrushchev sends conflicting peace and ultimatum letters. Robert Kennedy strikes a hidden private deal with the Soviet ambassador: public U.S. guarantees against invading Cuba, paired with an undisclosed promise to remove American missiles in Turkey. Khrushchev backs down, dismantling the missile sites, leaving Fidel Castro furious at being excluded from all negotiations. The novel explores the lasting fallout: Khrushchev's fall from power, Kennedy's push for arms control, and the hidden lifelong trauma borne by every key witness to the crisis. A vivid blend of spy suspense and historical drama, it unpacks how quiet compromise, not military force, saved the world from annihilation.

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About the Author

Roccado Wells is a former Soviet refugee turned investigative journalist and author. Born in Leningrad, he defected to the West in the late 1970s, escaping the suffocating grip of the totalitarian state he grew up in. For over three decades, Wells worked as a freelance journalist specializing in Soviet history and the political development of the Eastern Bloc, reporting on the human cost of the Cold War and the collapse of Communism.
He turned to fiction in his late sixties, driven by a desire to consolidate his lifetime of lived experience and meticulous research into gripping narratives. Writing thrillers became his way to ensure the world remembers the human reality behind the history. Echoes of the Empire is his debut novel.

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