Spy's Fate

A courageous book that offers a true insiders view of the new Cuba thatneither the US nor Fidel Castro want you to know about.Edgar Awardwinningauthor William H... » 

A courageous book that offers a true insiders view of the new Cuba thatneither the US nor Fidel Castro want you to know about.Edgar Awardwinningauthor William HeffernanAkashic Books anoints its status as the premier US publisher of Cuban noirwith the first Englishlanguage suspense novel by acclaimed Cuban authorArnaldo Correa. Spys Fate is a smart scandalous and fastpaced portrayalof the inept misadventures of postCold War US and Cuban Intelligenceoperations. At the center of the novel is Carlos Manuel alias Roberto whofor two decades has built his reputationand guarded his anonymityas a Cubanspecial service agent and political assassin in Africa and Latin America. Whenhis wife commits suicide he returns to Havana in 1994 to discover hiscountrys economy in disarray along with its intelligence infrastructure.Widowed jobless and homeless he finds himself completely alienated from hischildren and from the country he has served.After his kids embark on a potentially disastrous raft ride to the US Carlossteals a yacht and sails after them into the stormy Atlantic. A lastminutedecision saves his children but leaves him stranded in Miami just one stepahead of the CIA for whom he is a murder suspect and Cuban intelligence whomistakenly believe he has defected. Complicating matters is Sidney King amaniacally vindictive CIA bureaucrat. Carlos flees from a Florida refugee campto smalltown Maine to a fishing village in northern Cuba. The hunter becomesthe hunted as Carlos finally encounters his old nemesisand the ravagingviolence of his former life.Arnaldo Correa was born in the Escambray Mountains Cuba in 1935. In 1966hepublished his first book which was praised by Fidel Castro. Correa isconsidered one of three founders of the Cuban crimefiction genre. He currentlylives in Havana. «