Cuba Libre (novel)

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Cuba Libre
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First edition
Author Elmore Leonard
Cover artist Chip Kidd (designer)
Country United States
Language English
Publisher Delacorte Press
Publication date
1998
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Preceded by Riding the Rap
Followed by Pagan Babies

Cuba Libre is a 1998 historical novel written by Elmore Leonard. Unlike most of Leonard's novels, which take place in the modern day, the novel takes place in 1898, immediately before the outbreak of the Spanish–American War.

Plot summary

Ben Tyler, a cowboy and sometime bank robber, is released from prison and is recruited by his old boss to ship a string of horses to a rich American sugar baron in Cuba. Their ship arrives in Havana harbor shortly after the explosive destruction of the warship USS Maine, amid rumors that war between Spain and the United States of America is imminent.

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