A brutally mutilated body is discovered washed up in the bay of Havana. The body of Miguel Forcade Mier, head smashed in by a baseball bat, genitals cut off by a dull knife. Forcade, once an official in the Cuban government responsible for the confiscation of the belongings of the bourgeoisie fleein
Havana Black: a Lieutenant Mario Conde Mystery
✍ Scribed by Leonardo Padura
- Publisher
- Bitter Lemon Press
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 162 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. Second Conde mystery set in languid Havana.
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