This is an excellent book that describes, among other things, historic events in an interesting fictional setting. I thought it was interesting with the recent hub-bub about JFK's back problems that this was mentioned in this book, a couple of years before that recent story. Perhaps the authors knew a thing or two about things that happened. If you would like to know a little more about the Cuban Revolution and Castro's rise to power, but want to learn in an interesting and delightful fictional story, this is a great place to start.

More of what you usually find in writing about Cuba, either the Castro is Perfect or Castro is Evil Personified. Mallin favors the latter view and doesn't let objectivity get in the way of a good partisan screed. There are few good balanced books on Cuba (Louis Perez Jr.s' history is, I think, the best) - this book is not one of those few. It's more of the same old, same old we've been seeing the past 40 years.