Cuba libre - BookWyrm

405 pages

English language

Published Feb. 20, 2012 by William Morrow & Co.

ISBN:: 978-0-06-218429-0
OCLC Number:: 843181684

(6 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.

8 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.