Havana: A Swagger Family Novel (Earl Swagger, Book 3) (Unabridged)
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4.4 • 9 Ratings
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Publisher Description
High summer in Cuba, 1953, and Havana gleams with possibility. Flush with booming casinos, sex and drugs, Havana is a lucrative paradise for everyone from the Mafia, Domino Sugar, and United Fruit to pimps, porn-makers, and anyone looking to grab a piece of the action - including the Cuban government, which naturally honors the interests of its old ally, Uncle Sam.
Of course, where there's paradise, trouble can't be far behind. Trouble, in this case, makes its entrance in the terrifically charismatic and silver-tongued form of a young revolutionary named Fidel Castro. The Caribbean is fast becoming a strategic Cold War hub, and Soviet intelligence has taken Castro under its wing. The CIA's response is to send the one man capable of eliminating Castro: the legendary gunfighter and ex-Marine hero Earl Swagger, who proved his lethal talent in the national bestsellers Hot Springs and Pale Horse Coming.
In Cuba, Earl finds himself up to his neck in treacherous ambiguity where the old rules about honor and duty don't apply, and where Earl's target seems to have more guts and good luck than anyone else in Cuba.
Customer Reviews
Great Story, Narrating, not so much!
As of all the Stephen Hunter books I have listened to, the story was great! The narrator though! What happened? Why did Eric C. Dove not narrate this? This new narrator, tried, but his Russian accents were comical, his Spanish accents, man everyone sounded like Speedy Gonzales. Anyway, like I said, the story and characters were on point, as always!
Good book, ok reader.
this is a really good book as are most of Stephen Hunters books. while the reader shows enthusiasm, just didn't care for his voice. really liked the reader on the previous Earl Swagger volumes better.
Havana
I'm a Stephen Hunter superfan and I've listened to nearly all of his audiobooks. The reader on this one is terrible! His impersonations of various accents are way overdone and he has a generally effeminate style; a real annoyance when listening to dialogues between hardcore masculine characters, whether they be Soviet spies, redneck politicians, CIA operators, or even Earl Swagger himself. He sounds like a Shakespearean actor trying to be Clint Eastwood.Give me Buck Sherner and Eric Dove any day over this narrator. I can't believe Stephen Hunter would have approved of this fop reading his great novels.