- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; (Reissue) edition (2 Oct 2009)
- Language Unknown
- ISBN-10: 0007350112
- ISBN-13: 978-0007350117
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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‘José Latour is a master of Cuban Noir’ Martin Cruz Smith
Praise for Outcast:
‘Don’t miss this one, it’s terrific!’ Lawrence Block
‘With a sharp prose style and good pace, Latour keeps the suspense up and delivers some real surprises’ Anthea Lawson, The Times
‘Dark, exciting’ Philip Oakes, Literary Review
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A moody slice of Cuban noir from the acclaimed author of Outcast: ‘A masterful book … passionate, frightening and extremely violent’ Independent on Sunday
Years ago, a fleeing Batista supporter reportedly stashed an incredibly valuable collection of diamonds in a Havanan apartment. Now a pair of Americans (posing as Canadians) have come to Cuba to find the jewels on behalf of the man’s blind son, who promised them a share of the fortune if they can make it back to New York.
Arriving at the apartment, they have to negotiate its present occupants – a mismatched brother and sister: he a Cuban wide boy scraping a living out of selling girls, pornography and drugs to foreigners; she an upright, vulnerable, beautiful woman with a tragic past. (Their father, the hero of the Cuban revolution, is in gaol after shooting his wife’s lover.) Add to this is a hitman the Americans unwisely hired to get rid of one of the obstacles in their path, who now wants a piece of the action himself, and the pressure is on to find the diamonds and get out of Havana – before someone else gets their hands on them.
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Format:Paperback
Routine procedural with a hidden treasure twist. Except for being placed in Havana it could be just about any book. Hardly noir as the blurbs on the cover said. And it may be my anti-communist prejudice but I somehow doubt whether the Cuban police and forensics are as professional as they're made out to be here.
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18 Mar 2006
Format:Paperback
Routine procedural with a hidden treasure twist. Except for being placed in Havana it could be just about any book. Hardly noir as the blurbs on the cover said. And it may be my anti-communist prejudice but I somehow doubt whether the Cuban police and forensics are as professional as they're made out to be here.
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