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Language English Media type Print (Hardcover) Followed by Pagan Babies Publisher Dell Publishing Country United States of America | 3.6/5 Goodreads Publication date 1998 Preceded by Riding the Rap Originally published 1998 Genre Fiction Cover artist Chip Kidd | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cuba Libre is a 1998 historical novel written by Elmore Leonard. Unlike most of Leonard's novels, which take place in the modern day, the novel takes place in 1898, immediately before the outbreak of the Spanish–American War.
Plot summary
Ben Tyler, a cowboy and sometime bank robber, is released from prison and is recruited by his old boss to ship a string of horses to a rich American sugar baron in Cuba. Their ship arrives in Havana harbor shortly after the explosive destruction of the warship USS Maine, amid rumors that war between Spain and the United States of America is imminent.
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