Nelson DeMilleโs #1 New York Times bestseller, โan action-packed, relentlessly paced thrillerโ (Publishers Weekly, starred review), featuring DeMilleโs newest characterโU.S. Army combat veteran Daniel โMacโ MacCormick, a charter boat captain setting sail on his most dangerous cruise yet.
Daniel Graham MacCormickโMac for shortโseems to have a pretty good life. At age thirty-five heโs 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 donโt tan, and a boat with a big bank loan. Truth be told, Macโs 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 Carlosโ clientsโa 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 Saraโs grandfather when he fled Castroโs revolution. With the โCuban Thawโ underway between Havana and Washington, Carlos, Eduardo, and Sara know itโs only a matter of time before someone finds the stashโby accident or on purpose. And Mac knows if he accepts this job, heโll walk away richโฆor not at all.
The Cuban Affair โis a timely stay-up-all-night, nail-biting page-turner featuring Nelson DeMilleโs 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 readโ (Library Journal, starred review).
โGenuinely grippingโ (Newsday), told with โincredible witโ (Tampa Bay Times), โThe Cuban Affair feels authentic and real, and it provides knuckle-white tension mixed in with levityโ (Associated Press).