1 February 2010
Elmore Leonard – Cuba Libre
Posted by Dirk under: books .
Elmore Leonard is one of those authors that I almost can’t go wrong with. I haven’t read more than half a dozen of his books but they’ve all been pretty good. This one is too. Basically a western transplanted to Cuba. The main character is a cowpoke who just got out of jail for robbing banks (he was just trying to get the money he was owed though) who gets involved with a scheme to ship horses from America to Cuba and sell them for a handsome profit.
Things go awry though when he falls for a gal and then ends up in prison and war breaks out. And $40,000 on a train too.
I liked it.