Cuba Libre -- Elmore Leonard

<p>"A wild ride through Cuba during the Spanish-American War." <br />--<em>Miami Herald</em></p><p>"Not only his finest novel but one that transcends the limits of its genre and is worthy of being evaluated as literary fiction." <br />--<em>Houston Chronicle</em></p><p>Before Grand Master Elmore Leonard earned his well-deserved reputation as "the best writer of crime fiction alive" (<em>Newsweek</em>), he penned some of the finest western fiction to ever appear in print. (The classics <em>Hombre</em>, <em>Valdez is Coming</em>, and <em>3:10 to Yuma</em> were just a few of his notable works.) With his extraordinary <em>Cuba Libre</em>, 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 <em>Raylan</em>, <em>Pronto</em>, <em>Riding the Rap</em>, and TV's <em>Justified</em>, 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 <em>Cuba Libre</em>. No wonder the <em>New York Times</em> <em>Book Review</em> enthusiastically declared him "a literary genius."<br /></p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Elmore Leonard<br><b>Publisher:</b> William Morrow & Company<br><b>Published:</b> 04/10/2012<br><b>Pages:</