Havana Blue

Lieutenant Mario Conde is suffering from a terrible New Year’s Eve hangover. Though it’s the middle of a weekend, he is asked to urgently investigate the mysterious disappearance of Rafael Morin, a high-level business manager in the Cuban nomenklatura. Conde remembered Morin from their student days: good-looking, brilliant, a “reliable comrade’’ who always got what he wanted, including Tamara, the girl Conde was after.

But Rafael Morin’s exemplary rise from a poor barrio and picture-perfect life hides more than one suspicious episode worthy of investigation. While pursuing the case in a decaying but adored Havana, Conde confronts his lost love for Tamara and the dreams and illusions of his generation.

• Author
• Leonardo Padura, Peter Bush

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 244

• Series
• Mario Conde

• Publisher
• Bitter Lemon Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781904738220

• Characters
• Mario Conde

• Settings
• Havana

• Genres
• mystery, crime, fiction, noir, thriller, literature, detective

• Release date
• 2007