Night Work

The second book in David C. Taylors transporting historical crime-fiction series Michael Cassidy, a New York cop plagued by dreams that sometimes come true, escorts a prisoner accused of murder to Havana on the cusp of Fidel Castros successful revolution against the Batista dictatorship. After delivering the man to La Cabaa prison and rescuing his former loverDylan McCue, now a Russian KGB agentfrom her scheduled execution, Cassidy returns to New York and retreats into the comforts of alcohol and sex. The arrival of Fidel Castro in New York three months later complicates the cops life once more. Cassidys investigation of a young mans murder in Central Park is interrupted when he is assigned to Castros protective detail. Castro has many enemies. American mobsters who have been run out of Havana, businessmen who worry about their investments in Cuba, and members of Batistas secret police all want him dead. Cassidy is already investigating one murder. Can he prevent another?