Cuba Libre (2008)

“A wild ride through Cuba during the Spanish-American War.”

— *Miami Herald*

“Not only his finest novel but one that transcends the limits of its genre and is worthy of being evaluated as literary fiction.”

— *Houston Chronicle*

Before Grand Master Elmore Leonard earned his well-deserved reputation as “the best writer of crime fiction alive” ( *Newsweek* ), he penned some of the finest western fiction to ever appear in print. (The classics *Hombre* , *Valdez is Coming* , and *3:10 to Yuma* were just a few of his notable works.) With his extraordinary *Cuba Libre* , Leonard ingeniously combines all of his many talents and delivers a historical adventure/caper/western/noir like none other. The creator of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, star of *Raylan* , *Pronto* , *Riding the Rap* , and TV’s *Justified* , spins a gloriously exciting yarn about an American horse wrangler who escapes a date with a Cuban firing squad to join forces with a powerful sugar baron’s lady looking to make waves and score big in and around Spanish-American War-torn Havana in 1898. Everything you love about Leonard’s fiction—and more—is evident in *Cuba Libre*. No wonder the *New York Times* *Book Review* enthusiastically declared him “a literary genius.”