Cuba Libre

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Elmore Leonard: Cuba Libre (Paperback, 2002, HarperTorch)

mass market paperback, 432 pages

English language

Published July 30, 2002 by HarperTorch.

ISBN:
978-0-06-008404-2
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OCLC Number:
50413637

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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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Subjects

  • Literary
  • Fiction - Historical
  • Fiction
  • Historical - General
  • Thrillers
  • Fiction / General