Castro Can Wait

London 1962. It's the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis and a boat containing a fleet of red buses lies mysteriously at the bottom of the Thames...
In order to boost Havana's ailing public transport system, Fidel Castro sends shy linguist Toni Corrales on a secret mission to infiltrate a suburban bus garage and 'liberate' a dozen double-deckers from under the noses of the British intelligence services.
Corrales immediately gets acquainted with the capital's hot spots (including a Soho dive and a south London ballroom) but then a bullet-ridden musician in the Holloway Road and a burnt-out training bus in Chiswick all point towards the fact that the Cold War has hit London's streets.
With a psychotic CIA marksman on his tail, not to mention the attentions of a gorgeous Aquascutum model, the Cuban's seemingly straightforward assignment looks doomed. Can our reluctant hero deliver Castro's red buses and keep his revolutionary principles in tact?
Castro Can Wait is based on a true story.