Havana World Series

Klappentext With Havana World Series! one of Latin America's premier crime writers offers a blend of baseball! American mobsters! and corrupt cops. It is the fall of 1958 and all of Cuba is riveted to the World Series-the New York Yankees are playing the Milwaukee Braves and the infamous Meyer Lansky's gambling empire is raking in millions in bets. With a team of Cuba's boldest and most ingenious criminals! rival mob boss Joe Bonnano plans to hijack Lanksy's fortune. The heist goes off brilliantly until Bonnano's point man is double-crossed and shot dead. As Lansky's man in the police department investigates the murder! he suspects the involvement of career criminal Mariano Contreras-and to get Bonnano out of the Cuban racket once and for all! Lansky will stop at nothing to track Contreras down. Alive with vibrant detail and a fantastic cast of misfit characters! Havana World Series is an entertaining and suspenseful story. Zusammenfassung With Havana World Series! one of Latin America's premier crime writers offers a blend of baseball! American mobsters! and corrupt cops. It is the fall of 1958 and all of Cuba is riveted to the World Series-the New York Yankees are playing the Milwaukee Braves and the infamous Meyer Lansky's gambling empire is raking in millions in bets. With a team of Cuba's boldest and most ingenious criminals! rival mob boss Joe Bonnano plans to hijack Lanksy's fortune. The heist goes off brilliantly until Bonnano's point man is double-crossed and shot dead. As Lansky's man in the police department investigates the murder! he suspects the involvement of career criminal Mariano Contreras-and to get Bonnano out of the Cuban racket once and for all! Lansky will stop at nothing to track Contreras down. Alive with vibrant detail and a fantastic cast of misfit characters! Havana World Series is an entertaining and suspenseful story.

Product details

• Authors: Jos� LaTour, José LaTour, Jose Latour, José Latour
• Publisher: Atlantic monthly press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.2005
• EAN: 9780802141866
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-4186-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, Historische Kriminalromane und Mystery, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Sports, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Fiction - Mystery / Detective, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Havana, Thriller / suspense fiction, Fiction: general & literary, c 1950 to c 1959, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, CULTURAL HERITAGE / Spanish