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Havana Fever

Mario Conde has retired from the police force and makes a living trading in antique books. Havana is now flooded with dollars, populated by pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers, and other hunters of the night. In the book collection of a rich Cuban who fled after the fall of Batista, Conde discovers an article about Violeta del Rio, a beautiful bolero singer of the 1950s who disappeared mysteriously. A murder soon follows. This is a crime story set in today’s darker Cuba, but it is also an evocation of the Havana of Batista, the city of a hundred night clubs where the paths of Marlon Brando and Meyer Lansky crossed.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 285
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781904738367
  • Characters
  • Mario Conde
  • Genres
  • fiction, mystery, noir, crime, detective, thriller, roman
  • Release date
  • 2009