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Just three days after the sinking of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor, Ben Tyler arrives with a string of horses to sell - cover for a boatload of guns he's running to Cuban insurgents, risking a firing squad if he's caught.
This cowboy's first day ashore sets the pace for a wild ride to come. He sells the horses to an American planter, Roland Boudreaux, who's making a killing in Cuba ... meets the man's sparkly New Orleans-born mistress, Amelia Brown, and falls in love ... makes an enemy of a terrorizing Guardia Civil officer named Tavalera, and a friend of a mysterious old Cuban, Victor Fuentes ... is forced into a gunfight and thrown in prison, Tavalera determined to nail him as a spy.
Tyler has done time in the past for robbing banks, but never in a place like Morro Castle. America is about to declare war on Spain, and if Tyler doesn't manage to get out very soon, he's a dead man. How his escape comes about, with surprising help, is the high point from which the plot takes off on a train ride across Cuba, with Tyler and Amelia looking for more than love, a lot more - a chance to snatch a bundle of Boudreaux's cash, if they can pull it off. But who can you trust?
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Fiction, Illegal arms transfers, Spanish-American War, 1898, Illegal arms transfers in fiction, Spanish-American War, 1898 in fiction, Cuba in fiction, Americans in fiction, Americans, History, Travel, Large type books, Fiction, men's adventure, Fiction, historical, general, Cuba, history, 1895-, Spanish-american war, 1898, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Arms transfers, Fiction, action & adventure, Cuba, fictionPlaces
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Leonard's famous "Tropical Western" delivers a smuggler, a sugar baron, and one smart, pistol-hot lady to Havana during the Spanish-American War.War in Cuba isn't Ben Tyler's concern. Still, sailing mares and guns into Havana harbor in 1898 - right past the submerged wreckage of the U.S. battleship Maine - may not be the most intelligent thing the recently prison-sprung horse wrangler ever did. Neither is shooting one of the local Guardia, though the pompous peacock deserved it. Now Tyler's sitting tight in a vermin-infested Cuban stockade waiting to face a firing squad. But he's not dying until he gets the money he's owed from a two-timing American sugar baron. And there's one smart, pistol-hot lady at the rich man's side who could help Ben get everything he's got rightfully coming... even when the whole damn island's going straight to hell.
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