Havana, Stephen Hunter
Havana, Stephen Hunter
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Havana
A Swagger Family Novel

Author: Stephen Hunter

Narrator: William Dufris

Unabridged: 13 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/16/2017

Synopsis

High summer in Cuba, 1953, and Havana gleams with possibility. Flush with booming casinos, sex and drugs, Havana is a lucrative paradise for everyone from the Mafia, Domino Sugar, and United Fruit to pimps, porn-makers, and anyone looking to grab a piece of the action—including the Cuban government, which naturally honors the interests of its old ally, Uncle Sam.Of course, where there's paradise, trouble can't be far behind. Trouble, in this case, makes its entrance in the terrifically charismatic and silver-tongued form of a young revolutionary named Fidel Castro. The Caribbean is fast becoming a strategic Cold War hub, and Soviet intelligence has taken Castro under its wing. The CIA's response is to send the one man capable of eliminating Castro: the legendary gunfighter and ex-Marine hero Earl Swagger, who proved his lethal talent in the national bestsellers Hot Springs and Pale Horse Coming.In Cuba, Earl finds himself up to his neck in treacherous ambiguity where the old rules about honor and duty don't apply, and where Earl's target seems to have more guts and good luck than anyone else in Cuba.

About Stephen Hunter

Stephen Hunter has written fifteen novels. The retired chief film critic for The Washington Post, where he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, he has also published two collections of film criticism and a nonfiction work. He lives in Maryland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Randy on October 31, 2013

High summer in Cuba, 1953, and Havana gleams with possibility. Flush with booming casinos, sex and drugs, Havana is a lucrative paradise for everyone from the Mafia, Domino Sugar, and United Fruit to pimps, porn-makers, and anyone looking to grab a piece of the action - including the Cuban governmen......more

Goodreads review by Carol on March 21, 2018

Actually a lot better than most of the later Swagger novels, if you can ignore the racist stereotyping of Cubans, and Italians, and Jews, and the complete absence of strong female characters.......more

Goodreads review by Pete on January 14, 2018

Another superbly crafted and entertaining novel in the Swagger series. This one kicks off with a terrific example of foreshadowing. Earl has his young son out on his first deer hunt explaining that the art of the hunt is having the patience to know when the moment is right for taking your prey. Of c......more

Goodreads review by DJMikeG on August 12, 2011

Not quite as good as "Hot Springs" but still an excellent action thriller filled with more plot twists and wild intrigue than you could ever possibly throw a stick at. (Not that you'd ever throw a stick at such things.... unless they were brought to you by Tom Clancy. I've wanted to throw sticks at......more

Goodreads review by Jim on October 23, 2014

Not a bad read, but he made caricatures of the main characters. The hero, Earl Swagger, was such a hero - good, faithful, loyal. The bad guys were so vile, dumb & almost comical, in some cases. It was just over the top. The basic story was kind of interesting; Cuba before Castro took over. At the en......more

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