A former revolutionary plots revenge, in this ';superior crime novel' from an Edgar Awardwinning author ';as adept at comedy as he is at tragedy' (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Aldo Bianchi, a former Argentine revolutionary now living in Italy, travels to Havana, Cuba. There, he meets the beautiful Bini, a sultry student with great charm and panache working the hotelsand discovers that his nemesis, the Uruguayan military torturer Alberto Ros, is living in the country as well, under a false identity. Putting his tropical holiday on hold, Bianchi goes on the hunt for his sadistic enemy, in this ';unusual political thriller… By turns bawdy, funny, dark, cheerful, learned, and madcap, populated with memorable characters' from a winner of both an Edgar and a Dashiell Hammett Award (Booklist).
