Murder in Havana

Murder in Havana
Author: Margaret Truman
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2013-07-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1588360199

Max Pauling, of Murder in Foggy Bottom, is coaxed out of a restless retirement by another "ex-" CIA colleague. The case that tempts him is one involving a large American pharmaceutical firm that may be using a German company as a front to get around the U.S. scientific and technical embargo of Cuba. What's at stake? An ex-senator, who heads up a drug company, is after big game: the surprising and stunning medical research being conducted by the Cubans to develop a more effective anticancer drug. Max, who is among other things a pilot, is assured that this will be a purely private assignment—no assassinations, no government to subvert, no informers to turnjust a few easy flights and a little time in the sun. Once in Havana, he makes contact with a ravishing Cuban-American woman who is to be his "translator." Soon, he finds himself hunted as an assassin in a place where murder is sanctioned for a greater good, or greater greed, and those caught in the crossfire are as quickly consumed as a frozen daiquiri.

Havana Fever

Havana Fever
Author: Leonardo Padura
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2009-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1904738893

Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The return of Mario Conde.

Havana Noir

Havana Noir
Author: Achy Obejas
Publisher: Akashic Books
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2007-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1936070235

“[A] superb collection . . . The 18 stories by current and former residents of Havana are gritty, heartbreaking and capture the city.” —Orlando Sentinel To most outsiders, Havana is a tropical sin city. Habaneros know that this is neither new nor particularly true. In the real Havana—the lawless Havana that never appears in the postcards or tourist guides—the concept of sin has been banished by the urgency of need. And need—aching and hungry—inevitably turns the human heart darker, feral, and criminal. In this Havana, crime, though officially vanquished by revolutionary decree, is both wistfully quotidian and personally vicious. In the stories of Havana Noir, current and former residents of the city—some international sensations such as Leonardo Padura, others exciting new voices like Yohamna Depestre—uncover crimes of violence and loveless sex, of mental cruelty and greed, of self-preservation and collective hysteria. Other authors include: Pablo Medina, Alex Abella, Arturo Arango, Lea Aschkenas, Moisés Asís, Arnaldo Correa, Mabel Cuesta, Michel Encinosa Fú, Mylene Fernández Pintado, Carolina García-Aguilera, Miguel Mejides, Achy Obejas, Oscar F. Ortíz, Ena Lucía Portela, Mariela Varona Roque, and Yoss. “[A] remarkable collection . . . gritty tales of deprivation, depravity, heroic perseverance, revolution and longing in a city mythical and widely misunderstood.” —The Miami Herald

Havana Red

Havana Red
Author: Leonardo Padura
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2005
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1904738095

A young transvestite found strangled in a Havana park. The stifling death of a beloved Cuba.

Havana Bay

Havana Bay
Author: Martin Cruz Smith
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2001
Genre: American fiction
ISBN: 0345390458

A novel about the murder of a Russian man in Cuba.

The History of Havana

The History of Havana
Author: Dick Cluster
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2008-04-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780230603974

This is the first comprehensive history of the culturally diverse city, and the first to be co-authored by a Cuban and an American. Beginning with the founding of Havana in 1519, Cluster and Hernández explore the making of the city and its people through revolutions, art, economic development and the interplay of diverse societies. The authors bring together conflicting images of a city that melds cultures and influences to create an identity that is distinctly Cuban.

Havana Nocturne

Havana Nocturne
Author: T. J. English
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0061795585

In modern-day Havana, the remnants of the glamorous past are everywhere—old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars & flickering neon signs speak of a bygone era that is widely familiar & often romanticized, but little understood. In Havana Nocturne, T.J. English offers a multifaceted true tale of organized crime, political corruption, roaring nightlife, revolution & international conflict that interweaves the dual stories of the Mob in Havana & the event that would overshadow it, the Cuban Revolution. As the Cuban people labored under a violently repressive regime throughout the 50s, Mob leaders Meyer Lansky & Charles "Lucky" Luciano turned their eye to Havana. To them, Cuba was the ultimate dream, the greatest hope for the future of the US Mob in the post-Prohibition years of intensified government crackdowns. But when it came time to make their move, it was Lansky, the brilliant Jewish mobster, who reigned supreme. Having cultivated strong ties with the Cuban government & in particular the brutal dictator Fulgencio Batista, Lansky brought key mobsters to Havana to put his ambitious business plans in motion. Before long, the Mob, with Batista's corrupt government in its pocket, owned the biggest luxury hotels & casinos in Havana, launching an unprecedented tourism boom complete with the most lavish entertainment, the world's biggest celebrities, the most beautiful women & gambling galore. But their dreams collided with those of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara & others who would lead the country's disenfranchised to overthrow their corrupt government & its foreign partners—an epic cultural battle that English captures in all its sexy, decadent, ugly glory. Bringing together long-buried historical information with English's own research in Havana—including interviews with the era's key survivors—Havana Nocturne takes readers back to Cuba in the years when it was a veritable devil's playground for mob leaders. English deftly weaves together the parallel stories of the Havana Mob—featuring notorious criminals such as Santo Trafficante Jr & Albert Anastasia—& Castro's 26th of July Movement in a riveting, up-close look at how the Mob nearly attained its biggest dream in Havana—& how Fidel Castro trumped it all with the revolution.

Havana Gold

Havana Gold
Author: Leonardo Padura
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2008
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1904738281

Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The fourth of the Havana Quartet series.

Murder in the House

Murder in the House
Author: Margaret Truman
Publisher: Fawcett
Total Pages: 353
Release: 1998-06-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0449001725

He died beneath the Statue of Freedom, clutching a 9-mm pistol in his hand. But as dawn rose, the politician would die again--in a hail of rumor and character assassination. Now one man suspects the shattering truth: that the congressman's suicide was a carefully planned murder. In the heart of the free world, a furious struggle begins: to reclaim a man's innocence, expose a woman's lie, and stop a chilling conspiracy of murder that reaches halfway around the world. . . .

Havana Blue

Havana Blue
Author: Leonardo Padura
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1904738222

A scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The third in the Havana Quartet series.