Synopses & Reviews
An epic and explosive novel of Cuba in 1958,
After Havana is the story the nightclubs, revolutionaries, and Security forces in the sour twilight of the Batista empire. Sloan is a white American horn player with a bruised past and a wounded heart. Anita is the mixed-race beauty who will recapture his love and spark a manhunt through the streets of the city and into the heart of the rebel-held Sierre Maestra mountains. Carlos Delgado is the famed rebel Communist leader, having secretely returned to his homeland from exile in Mexico. And Cardoso is the haunted Security agent assigned to find and kill Delgado, thereby shifting the power back to the corrupt Batista government. Cardoso is author Charles Fleming's greatest creation yet, a man corrupted by circumstance and duty yet willing to sacrifice it all for redemption.
Review
“A delicious crime novel set in Cuba during the last days before Castro...splendid.”--
Chicago Sun-Times“Amorality run riot, but Fleming does an expert job of glossing it over and dressing it up: rousing entertainment.”--Kirkus Reviews
"The Ivory Coast was a great mystery...After Havana is even better...[a] terrific book.” --The Globe & Mail (Toronto)
“Fleming will have a difficult time keeping the quality as high as After Havana.”--Midwest Book Review
“A furious tour.”--Booklist
Synopsis
An explosive novel of 1958 Havana: a dangerous world of musicians, security forces, and communist revolutionaries.
About the Author
Charles Fleming is the author of the novel
The Ivory Coast, as well as the nonfiction book
High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess. He is also coauthor of
The New York Times bestselling
A Goomba's Guide to Life and
Three Weeks in October. He lives with his family in Los Angeles.