Cuba Libre
Author | : Elmore Leonard |
Publisher | : William Morrow Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-04-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 0062184296 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780062184290 |
Rating | : 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.