Howard Waxman

Brooklyn-born Jay Cardinale, Vietnam War hero turned deserter, has fled to a commune in Canada. Aching to get back home he gets his shot at redemption in the form of a Faustian bargain: He can have a full pardon if he’ll go to Cuba and assassinate an American radical living there in exile.

Jay becomes a reluctant addition to the Venceremos Brigade, a group of idealistic American leftists heading south to work side-by-side with the Cubans in their crucial sugar cane harvest.  Once in Cuba, Jay cuts cane, gets political, plots murder, drinks with Hemingway’s ghost, makes Fidel laugh, turns twenty-one, falls in love and becomes a new man.  

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Trade paperback, 6” x 9”
314 pages
ISBN 978-1-936447-60-2 

$17.95