by Elmore Leonard · Ediciones B · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440688309
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«Cuba Libre» is the historical novel by Elmore Leonard, published by Ediciones B in paperback (334 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Cuba at the end of the 19th century, it follows an American adventurer who becomes involved in gunrunning and horse smuggling during the Cuban revolution. Alongside a Cuban woman and a corrupt Spanish officer, he moves among conspiracies, the Civil Guard, and characters out for their own gain as the colony heads toward independence.
Elmore Leonard moves away from the contemporary thriller to set the action in late-19th-century Cuba.
It will appeal to those seeking a historical novel with the pace of a western and a thriller, labels with which the Wall Street Journal classified this work.
Elmore John Leonard Jr. was an American novelist, short story author and screenwriter. He was, according to British journalist Anthony Lane, "hailed as one of the best crime writers in the land". His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures. Among his best-known works are Hombre, Swag, City Primeval, LaBrava, Glitz, Freaky Deaky, Get Shorty, Rum Punch, Out of Sight and Tishomingo Blues.
