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In the 1950s, CIA agent and former Marine hero Earl Swagger is tasked with eliminating the nascent revolutionary, Fidel Castro, while stationed in Havana. The assignment thrusts Swagger into the turbulent beginnings of the Cold War, challenging his concepts of honor and duty as violence erupts around him. Set against the backdrop of Cuban politics and organized crime, the novel explores a character caught between loyalty to a government and his own moral code during a pivotal moment in American and Cuban history.
First publish date: 2003
Genre: Historical Fiction/20th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Stephen Hunter
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