Cuba Libre: A Novel

Cuba Libre: A Novel

“A wild ride through Cuba during the Spanish-American War.” — Miami Herald “Not only his finest novel but one that transcends the limits of its genre and is worthy of being evaluated as literary fiction.” — Houston Chronicle Before Grand Master Elmore Leonard earned his well-deserved reputation as “the best writer of crime fiction alive” ( Newsweek ), he penned some of the finest western fiction to ever appear in print. (The classics Hombre , Valdez is Coming , and 3:10 to Yuma were just a few of his notable works.) With his extraordinary Cuba Libre , Leonard ingeniously combines all of his many talents and delivers a historical adventure/caper/western/noir like none other. The creator of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, star of Raylan , Pronto , Riding the Rap , and TV’s Justified , spins a gloriously exciting yarn about an American horse wrangler who escapes a date with a Cuban firing squad to join forces with a powerful sugar baron’s lady looking to make waves and score big in and around Spanish-American War-torn Havana in 1898. Everything you love about Leonard’s fiction—and more—is evident in Cuba Libre . No wonder the New York Times Book Review enthusiastically declared him “a literary genius.” “The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!” — The New York Times Book Review “An absolute master.” — The Detroit News Sailing mares and guns into Havana harbor in 1898—right past the submerged wreckage of the U.S. battleship Maine —isn't the smartest thing recently prison-sprung horse wrangler Ben Tyler 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 Tyler get everything he's got rightfully coming . . . even when the whole damn island's going straight to Hell. Elmore Leonard wrote more than forty books during his long career, including the bestsellers  Raylan ,  Tishomingo Blues ,  Be Cool ,  Get Shorty , and  Rum Punch , as well as the acclaimed collection  When the Women Come Out to Dance , which was a  New York Times  Notable Book. Many of his books have been made into movies, including  Get Shorty  and  Out of Sight . The short story “Fire in the Hole,” and three books, including  Raylan , were the basis for the FX hit show  Justified . Leonard received the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN USA and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He died in 2013. Used Book in Good Condition