Nelson DeMilleâs #1 New York Times bestseller, âan action-packed, relentlessly paced thrillerâ (Publishers Weekly, starred review), featuring DeMilleâs newest characterâU.S. Army combat veteran Daniel âMacâ MacCormick, a charter boat captain setting sail on his most dangerous cruise yet.
Daniel Graham MacCormickâMac for shortâseems to have a pretty good life. At age thirty-five heâs living in Key West, owner of a forty-two-foot charter fishing boat, The Maine. Mac served five years in the Army as an infantry officer with two tours in Afghanistan. He returned with the Silver Star, two Purple Hearts, scars that donât tan, and a boat with a big bank loan. Truth be told, Macâs finances are more than a little shaky.
One day, Mac is sitting in the famous Green Parrot Bar in Key West, contemplating his life, and waiting for Carlos, a hotshot Miami lawyer heavily involved with anti-Castro groups. Carlos wants to hire Mac for a ten-day fishing tournament to Cuba at the standard rate, but Mac suspects there is more to this and turns it down. The price then goes up to two million dollars, and Mac agrees to hear the deal, and meet Carlosâ clientsâa beautiful Cuban-American woman named Sara Ortega, and a mysterious older Cuban exile, Eduardo Valazquez.
Mac learns that there is sixty million American dollars hidden in Cuba by Saraâs grandfather when he fled Castroâs revolution. With the âCuban Thawâ underway between Havana and Washington, Carlos, Eduardo, and Sara know itâs only a matter of time before someone finds the stashâby accident or on purpose. And Mac knows if he accepts this job, heâll walk away richâĻor not at all.
The Cuban Affair âis a timely stay-up-all-night, nail-biting page-turner featuring Nelson DeMilleâs iconic tongue-in-cheek, articulate, rhythmic narrative. His affably irreverent protagonist, fantastic believable supporting characters, and tense, realistic Cuba-set scenes including some jaw-dropping revelations make this a must readâ (Library Journal, starred review).
âGenuinely grippingâ (Newsday), told with âincredible witâ (Tampa Bay Times), âThe Cuban Affair feels authentic and real, and it provides knuckle-white tension mixed in with levityâ (Associated Press).