Cuba libre - SFBA Book Club

405 pages

English language

Published Dec. 26, 1999 by Dell.

ISBN:: 978-0-440-22559-1
OCLC Number:: 40625280

(2 reviews)

A novel on the Spanish-American War featuring adventurer Ben Tyler, an Arizona horse dealer. Just as he arrives in Cuba with a shipment of guns and horses, war breaks out. To get his money, he is sucked into fighting between Spain, the U.S. and Cuban revolutionaries seeking independence from both.

19 editions

Ian Brown reviewed Cuba libre by Elmore Leonard

Speed run through the Spanish-American War.

4 stars

An enjoyable, fast-paced (it is an Elmore Leonard book after all) tour through turn-of-the-century Cuba. A heck of a western, even if it takes place in the Carribean. ACAB, even back then.

Steven Ray

rated it

Feb. 2, 2020

Subjects

Fiction
History
Americans
Illegal arms transfers
Spanish-American War, 1898

Places

Cuba

Lists

Fiction