"Castro Brothers, Watch Out! James Bruno Has Your Number!"
I just couldn't help posting the latest Amazon book review of my Cuba thriller, HAVANA QUEEN. The reviewer, "Espionage Junkie," has a great style. I encourage him to review more books. I also wish him luck in his goal to join the U.S. Foreign Service.
"Former American diplomat James Bruno returns to Cuba, the scene of his greatest adventures in his real-life career. As a disillusioned FBI operative Bruno's alter ego stumbles upon serious coup plots to depose the Castro brothers as he takes on the role of a louche American tourist. The unfailingly suspicious tourist takes himself underground as he quickly shows himself to be a keen observer of the tropical delights of Havana and its world-famous senoritas.
In HAVANA QUEEN Bruno again shows that no living author can equal his insider knowledge of America's intelligence agencies and their efforts to save American diplomacy from the stumbling ignorance of what America's leaders choose to call homeland security. His revelations about and insights into the future of Fidel and Raul Castro are the stuff of a National Intelligence Estimate.
HAVANA QUEEN is cleverly crafted. Its gripping tales of events that normally don't make it out from under security classifications reveal that Bruno continues to sharpen his gifts for narrative and keen dialogue. While James Bruno may not yet quite be the successor to John LeCarre, with HAVANA QUEEN Bruno demonstrates that he is clearly the best writer about intelligence, espionage and political assassinations now working on this side of the Atlantic.
Write this note to yourself in invisible ink and then swallow it quickly: HAVANA QUEEN is a must-read!"