Faded Dreams is an epic autobiography by my fellow writer and good friend Carlos Rubio. Beyond being a very personal story of a young man growing up to the backdrop of this remarkable country of Cuba, there is as well a political subplot of a country that is dragged through the mud by one of the most ruthless dictators in recent world history. The people who populate his world all fantastically come alive on the pages; Carlos does so well in telling how special they were to him, and are still … [Read more...] about Faded Dreams by Carlos Rubio
Rum, Cigars, and Corpses by Jerold Last
*NEW RELEASE* A cancer researcher from California dies in a suspicious accident while touring Cuba. The tour guide, who was fired for negligence, hires Roger to clear her reputation. Roger’s first problem is how to get to Cuba where another complex case awaits solution. Fortunately, he has Suzanne. His second problem is how to proceed in a foreign country where he doesn’t know anybody and nobody knows him. Before long the reader is touring Cuba with our detective couple, very much on … [Read more...] about Rum, Cigars, and Corpses by Jerold Last
TRIPL3 CROSS by John Hegenberger
Forgotten Objects by Carlos Rubio
Forgotten Objects traces the life of Anna d’Amio, daughter of opera singers Louis and Francesca d’Amio, from Mussolini’s Italy to the city of Pittsburgh during the mid sixties. The novel proper is made up of three parts: Italy, Cuba and United States. Married at seventeen and widowed at twenty, Anna leaves war-torn Italy to find her fortune in Cuba, she eventually meets Ramón Contreras, a wealthy tobacco grower who later becomes her second husband. The idyllic world that the couple had so … [Read more...] about Forgotten Objects by Carlos Rubio
Olas by José Ramón Torres
Waves draws a parallelism between three major Cuban migration episodes (Camarioca, Mariel, Rafters) and to some degree describes the political wrangling between Fidel Castro and various US administrations. But above all it narrates the misadventures of three members of a Cuban family ―father, daughter and son― who decide to emigrate to the US after individually seeing for themselves that they cannot lead a satisfactory life on the island. “De este país lo que hay que hacer es irse de una … [Read more...] about Olas by José Ramón Torres
Beverly Hills is Burning by Neil Russell @NeilRussellAuth
"It was just after midnight when the girl in the blue diamond necklace fell out of the sky." In Hollywood, an ex-con movie producer, fresh out of San Quentin, is lucky if he can get a valet to take his car at the Ivy. Teddy Chessman got his own studio. Why? Because Teddy controls the most important motion picture property to hit town since agents were invented. And attached to this expected critical and financial bonanza is the biggest female action star in the world, Valentine … [Read more...] about Beverly Hills is Burning by Neil Russell @NeilRussellAuth
