Cuba Libre
FictionIllegal arms transfersSpanish-American War, 1898Illegal arms transfers in fictionSpanish-American War, 1898 in fiction
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Leonard's famous "Tropical Western" delivers a smuggler, a sugar baron, and one smart, pistol-hot lady to Havana during the Spanish-American War.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 most intelligent 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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FictionIllegal arms transfersSpanish-American War, 1898Illegal arms transfers in fictionSpanish-American War, 1898 in fictionCuba in fiction
Setting
CubaAdventure storiesHistorical fictionRevolution, 1895-1898
About the author
Elmore Leonard
11 October 1925 – 20 August 2013
Elmore John Leonard Jr. was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures. *--Wikipedia*
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