Outcast

(Down-and-out in the slums of Havana, Elliot Steil is resi...)

Down-and-out in the slums of Havana, Elliot Steil is resigned to his life, until a mysterious stranger offers him a chance to escape, and Elliot is left floating in the waters of the Florida Straits, about to be thrown back into the chaos he thought he left in Cuba.

https://www.amazon.com/Outcast-Jose-Latour/dp/0060184884/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Outcast+Latour&qid=1580218064&s=books&sr=1-1

2000

Havana Best Friends

(Canadian debut publication by one of the Spanish-speaking...)

Canadian debut publication by one of the Spanish-speaking world’s top crime-fiction writers Elena Miranda and her brother, Pablo, have lived in the same spacious Havana apartment since they were children, not knowing that a $10-million treasure in diamonds is hidden behind a tile in their bathroom. Now the son of the man who buried them there wants them, and he knows the ideal person for the job: his ruthless former comrade-in-arms during the Vietnam War. Equipped with a Spanish-speaking "wife" and Canadian passports, the vet flies to Cuba to sweet-talk his way into Elena and Pablo’s lives and get his hands on the diamonds. But Cuba has a way of confusing even the best-laid plans, and soon the treasure hunters find themselves being hunted. A complex, hard-boiled novel of betrayal, deceit, and cunning, Havana Best Friends takes place in a Cuba that tourists rarely see. Stunning plot twists rocket the story forward, but not once does the action overpower the story’s heart - the emotional lives of the people whose worlds are changed forever by these so-called best friends.

https://www.amazon.com/Havana-Best-Friends-Jose-Latour/dp/077104660X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Havana+Best+Friends+Latour&qid=1580218278&s=books&sr=1-1

2003

Havana World Series

(It is the fall of 1958 and all of Cuba is riveted to the ...)

It is the fall of 1958 and all of Cuba is riveted to the World Series - the New York Yankees are playing the Milwaukee Braves, and the infamous Meyer Lansky’s gambling empire is raking in millions in bets. But rival mob boss Joe Bonnano, working with a team of Cuba’s boldest and most ingenious criminals, plans to hijack Lanksy’s fortune. The heist goes off brilliantly - until Bonnano’s point man is shot dead. As Lansky’s man in the police department investigates the case, he is caught up in a colorful and dangerous world of gangsters, misfits, and double-crosses...

https://www.amazon.com/Havana-World-Novel-Jos%C3%A9-Latour-ebook/dp/B008RZK8PM/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Havana+World+Series+Latour&qid=1580218429&s=books&sr=1-1

2003

Comrades in Miami

(Only ninety miles of open water separate Florida from Cub...)

Only ninety miles of open water separate Florida from Cuba, but after decades of Communist rule, the two tropical paradises couldn’t be more different. In Havana, spymaster Victoria Valiente, head of Cuban Intelligence’s vital Miami Desk, and her computer-expert husband are tired of their sacrifices. After planning a multimillion-dollar electronic heist, they try to pull the wool over the Chief’s eyes and escape to freedom - but first they have to elude a world of espionage as cutthroat as anything from the height of the Cold War. As both governments draw out all the players - including a gardener with more abilities than just a green thumb, secret foreign operatives, the FBI, and an unsuspecting former English teacher - Victoria and her husband must try to survive in the dangerous zone between the neon streets of Miami and the crumbling facades of Havana...

https://www.amazon.com/Comrades-Miami-Novel-Jos%C3%A9-Latour-ebook/dp/B008RZKI02/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Comrades+in+Miami+Latour&qid=1580218573&s=books&sr=1-2

2005

Hidden in Havana

(In Cuba, deceit is routine, paranoia is reasonable, and e...)

In Cuba, deceit is routine, paranoia is reasonable, and everything banned thrives out of sight. Elena Miranda, a special-needs teacher, has no idea what lies behind the wall in her bathroom, nor that a ruthless Vietnam vet has come to Havana to retrieve it for his employer. The beautiful woman posing as the American vet's wife is actually with him for only one reason: Her Spanish is fluent, his is nonexistent. What they are there to do is neither an easy nor a pleasant task. Another man is also after what is behind that wall, and other problems complicate the job. Shortly after the Americans arrive, Elena's brother is murdered, and a Havana cop is assigned to the crime. Calmly but relentlessly, Captain Felix Trujillo begins to work on the murder and discovers that the dead man was hardly an upstanding citizen. He does find clues he can use, especially when he becomes aware that he is following not one but a trail of corpses. Hidden in Havana is a shocking story of betrayal and cunning, where the hunters become hunted, the best-laid plans are derailed by greed and virtue, and getting valuable treasure is far less important than getting out of Cuba alive.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004OA64S4/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i5

2008

The Faraway War

(Henry Reeve was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1850. At f...)

Henry Reeve was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1850. At fifteen, too young to join the military, he enlisted in the Union Army as a drummer boy. Three years later, he went on an expedition to Cuba to join the Cuban insurgents fighting the Spanish Army. In his first battle, Reeve and other rebels were captured and executed by firing squad. Miraculously, the Brooklynite survived his wounds, was rescued by Cuban rebels, and joined their fight. By the time he was killed in battle, he was a brigadier general in the Liberation Army. Today almost no one in the United States knows who Henry Reeve was, but just about every Cuban knows his story and admires him. Amusingly, Reeve is known in Cuba as "the Young Englishman," because he spoke the English language. But Henry Reeve was an American, and a Brooklyn boy all the way.

https://www.amazon.com/Faraway-War-Novel-Enrique-Clio-ebook/dp/B002GYI988/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Faraway+War+Enrique+Clio&qid=1580218770&s=books&sr=1-1

2009

Crime of Fashion

https://www.amazon.com/Crime-Fashion-Jose-Latour-2009-02-03/dp/B01K90OCB8/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Crime+of+Fashion+Latour&qid=1580219167&s=books&sr=1-1

2009

Riders of Land and Tide

(Riders of Land and Tide is an action-packed thriller that...)

Riders of Land and Tide is an action-packed thriller that recounts the lives of three main characters from birth and narrates how circumstances beyond their control cleared paths for them. When the thorniest path crosses the other two, all hell breaks loose.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C7TPEOE/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i3

2012

The Political Future of Cuba

(This book, penned for Cubans and perhaps some interested ...)

This book, penned for Cubans and perhaps some interested Spanish-speaking readers, was translated into English because many good, decent people living in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and others fluent in English living elsewhere, have shown respect, love and even admiration for Cuba, its people and the ordeal the island has gone through for over a century. Many are concerned about what could happen in Cuba in years ahead. To properly understand why representative democracy failed in Cuba one must unavoidably examine Cuban history. Communist failure is recounted so that readers may realize why, sooner rather than later, Cuba might experience profound political, economic and social changes. If democracy, political pluralism, respect for human rights and freedom of the press return, the majority of Cubans, all those younger than 60, will have to learn and adapt to realities about they know very little or nothing. The chapter titled The Future, tries to divulge and comment on issues that would forewarn adults about the opportunities that should be seized and the dangers that should be sidestepped.

https://www.amazon.com/Political-Future-Cuba-Jose-Latour/dp/1973279142

2017