I was standing at the bar in the Green Parrot, waiting for a guy named Carlos from Miami who'd called my cell a few days ago and said he might have a job for me.
The Cuban Affair ~ by Nelson DeMille, 2017, suspense thriller, 530 pages
Nelson DeMille is a #1 New York Times bestselling author. His new novel features U.S. Army combat veteran Daniel Graham MacCormick — Mac for short — who seems to have a pretty good life. At age thirty-five he’s living in Key West, owner of a forty-two-foot charter fishing boat, The Maine (named for his home state). Mac served five years in the Army as an infantry officer with two tours in Afghani-stan. He returned with the Silver Star, two Purple Hearts, scars that don’t tan, and a boat with a big bank loan. If the truth be told, Mac’s finances are more than a little shaky.
Mac is in the famous Green Parrot Bar in Key West, contemplating his life, and waiting for Carlos, a hotshot Miami lawyer heavily involved with anti-Castro groups. Carlos wants to hire Mac and The Maine for a ten-day fishing tourna-ment to Cuba at the standard rate, but Mac suspects there is more to this and turns it down. The price then goes up to two million dollars, and Mac agrees to hear the deal, and meet Carlos’s clients — a beautiful woman named Sara Ortega and a mysterious older Cuban exile named Eduardo Valazquez.
Mac learns there is sixty million American dollars hidden in Cuba by Sara’s grandfather when he fled Castro’s revolution. With the “Cuban Thaw” under-way between Havana and Washington, they all know it’s only a matter of time before someone finds the stash. Mac knows if he accepts this job, he’ll walk away rich — or not at all.
Gilion at Rose City Reader hosts
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