Review "Unflinching realism . . . a passport into Cuba's many layers, comfortable with the sun-kissed and the damned." "--The""Miami Herald""Big-picture, epic story-telling...full of believable myth. Sanchez has taken the entire historical and cross-cultural immensity of [Havana] and telescoped it into an intricately twisted mystery." "--San Francisco Chronicle." "An exotic portrait of sex, violence, corruption and conspiracy in Cuba."" --Washington Post""As propulsive as the Gulf Stream. King Bongo""uses the conventions of the thriller, mixed with a little magical realism and a lot of parody, to approach serious issues from a different angle."" --Los Angeles Times""It's fast. It's a thriller. It's sexy and violent. . . . The narration is as propulsive as the Gulf Stream." --The Los Angeles Times"An exotic portrait of sex, violence, corruption and conspiracy." --The Washington Post"Big-picture, epic story-telling. . . . Sanchez has taken the ent Book Description Cuba en 1957. La présence américaine y est à son apogée... Des " barbus " menés par Castro se cachent dans les montagnes et font sauter des bombes dans les lieux huppés où se pressent les étrangers... From the Back Cover Havana, New Year's Eve 1957, a terrorist bomb rips through the Tropicana nightclub. King Bongo, a rogue Cuban-American, tortured by a mysterious past and possessed of a mythic musical talent, goes on the hunt for the culprits, and for his sister, Cuba's most exotic showgirl, who disappeared in the explosion.Navigating Havana's maze of Colonial backstreets, red-light districts, swank country clubs, and opulent casinos, Bongo encounters an outrageous cast of characters--American hit men, decadent movie stars, prophetic shoeshine boys, and a beautiful American socialite. At the center of the mystery is a sinister secret police operative with whom Bongo is destined to have a lethal showdown.