- Fiction, Illegal arms transfers, Spanish-American War, 1898, Illegal arms transfers in fiction
Leonard's famous "Tropical Western" delivers a smuggler, a sugar baron, and one smart, pistol-hot lady to Havana during the Spanish-American War.War in Cuba isn't Ben Tyler's concern.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, effortless and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- effortlessdemanding
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Elmore Leonard
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 387
- Publisher
- Rivages, ISIS Large Print Books, Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9789086910274
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“TYLER ARRIVED WITH THE HORSES February eighteenth, three days after the battleship Maine blew up in Havana harbor.”
Elmore John Leonard Jr. was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures. *--Wikipedia*
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