by JoseLatour (Author)
It's the 1958 baseball World Series, and more money is at stake than ever. For the first time for as long as anyone can remember the New York Yankees are the underdogs and the bets are just rolling in...A large part of this money is rolling into Cuba - and to one man. Batista may be sitting in the President's palace, but the famous gangster, Meyer Lansky, really runs the place and he is looking to clean up like never before. But meanwhile, five Cubans are planning to do the unthinkable - rob the mob. They know that there will be more money in Lansky's casino on the night of the last game than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes. All they've got to do is to steal it - and live...Thus begins a dark, powerful and warm heist novel that shows OCEAN'S 11 how they do things Latin-style...
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Publisher: Orion
Published: 21 Oct 2004
ISBN 10: 0752861670
ISBN 13: 9780752861678
Book Overview: Jose Latour is widely considered to be one of the most talented Latin-American crime writers around. When his first novel - OUTCAST - was published in the UK it was described as: 'A masterful book. Cuban noir: passionate, frightening and extremely violent ... has the ability to transport us to another country; another life, more dramatic and more strongly coloured' Independent HAVANA WORLD SERIES is by far Jose's most readable book so far. OCEAN'S 11 meets CASINO, it stars larger than life real characters such as Meyer Lansky - and a group of bungling criminals as warm as you'll find in all crime fiction.