Goodbye Cuba (The Goodbye)

To his CIA handlers, Lieutenant Charlie Parnell is the ideal person to assassinate Fidel Castro. Charlie is skilled, resourceful, fluent in Spanish and subject to blackmail because of secrets he possesses. Appalled by the idea, Parnell is a bit of an overconfident con-artist, and he accepts the task, hoping to reap the rewards while outfoxing his handlers. They insert him into Cuba posing as a reporter for The Irish Times. Fidel's security chief assigns Isabel Fernandez, to be Charlie's watcher, trusting her loyalty, because she, too, is subject to manipulation. Her three-year-old daughter can be kidnapped at any moment. Fearing this, Isabel hides the girl with a Santeria cult. She quickly discovers that Charlie is indeed an American agent, not an Irish journalist. Rather than reporting this information, however, she seduces Charlie and persuades him to take her and the child with him when the CIA boat arrives to extract him from Cuba.As the missile crisis deepens, an American invasion looks imminent, forcing Charlie and Isabel to go on the run. The security chief launches a manhunt for them. But by now Charlie has figured out the one specific spot where the peripatetic Fidel must show up. All he and Isabel have to do is hide there until Castro appears in the crosshairs of Charlie's sniper rifle. Will he squeeze the trigger?

• | Author: J. J. Harrigan
• | Publisher: Bronzewood Books
• | Publication Date: Oct 03, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 344 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1949357511
• | ISBN-13: 9781949357516