The Mojito Coast

"The Mojito Coast is a well-plotted, very fifties mystery with a decidedly noir context. Fine reading!"-ALA BooklistFinalist for the 2014 PWA Shamus Award for Best Private Eye Novel!A thrilling new private eye series by Thriller and Derringer Award-winning author Richard Helms! The year is 1958. The place is Havana, Cuba. The revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara are marching through the jungle to the capital, decimating Fulgencio Batista's army in every battle. Miami private investigator Cormac Loame arrives in this political pressure cooker on a mission. Mob money-launderer and former heavyweight boxer Cecil "Madman" Hacker's daughter Lila has run off to Havana with one of Hacker's bodyguards, Danny McCarl. Hacker want Loame to bring her back, with or without McCarl. Reluctantly, Loame returns to Cuba. He and Havana have a troubled history. Six years earlier, he barely escaped Cuba with his life, and he left behind the woman he loved. Loame's search for Lila Hacker and Danny McCarl will lead him to encounter movie stars, desperate gangsters, Batista cronies, secret police, a former pal turned ruthless mercenary, an unlikely ally, and a Nobel laureate. It will also bring a reunion with his lost love and a desperate flight to escape the unfolding revolution. Tropical intrigue mixes with hardboiled action and torrid romance, featuring an exciting new private eye hero, in The Mojito Coast!