Cuba Libre

"A wild ride through Cuba during the Spanish-American War." -- Miami Herald "Not only his finest novel but one that transcends the limits of its genre and is worthy of being evaluated as literary fiction." -- Houston Chronicle Before Grand Master Elmore Leonard earned his well-deserved reputation as "the best writer of crime fiction alive" ( Newsweek ), he penned some of the finest western fiction to ever appear in print. (The classics Hombre , Valdez is Coming , and 3:10 to Yuma were just a few of his notable works.) With his extraordinary Cuba Libre , Leonard ingeniously combines all of his many talents and delivers a historical adventure/caper/western/noir like none other. The creator of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, star of Raylan , Pronto , Riding the Rap , and TV''s Justified , spins a gloriously exciting yarn about an American horse wrangler who escapes a date with a Cuban firing squad to join forces with a powerful sugar baron''s lady looking to make waves and score big in and around Spanish-American War-torn Havana in 1898. Everything you love about Leonard''s fiction--and more--is evident in Cuba Libre . No wonder the New York Times Book Review enthusiastically declared him "a literary genius."

Product details

• Authors: Elmore Leonard
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.07.2002
• EAN: 9780060084042
• ISBN: 978-0-06-008404-2
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 172 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: Action & Adventure, FICTION: War & Military, FICTION: Crime, FICTION: Westerns, FICTION: Noir, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General