A wild ride through Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
No wonder the New York Times Book Review enthusiastically declared him a literary genius..
Everything you love about Leonard\'s fiction--and more--is evident in Cuba Libre .
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.
The creator of U.
S. (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. -- 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. -- 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.
A wild ride through Cuba during the Spanish-American War
