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- Sales Rank: #8510497 in Books
- Published on: 2000-12
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Missing in Action
By audiobook maven
I am reviewing the audio version of this book, which I bought off the "used" rack at Amazon. The four two-sided tapes tell the unabridged story. I found it a little long, with a few too many characters to follow on tape. Although the historical setting is interesting, the story lacks the manic quality of Leonard's best books. It's never funny, the plot is a little slow, the dialogue is stilted, and that one truly scuzzy character who enlivens his best books is missing from the action.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Ruffians galore as America invades Cuba
By Scott Schiefelbein
Elmore Leonard's "Cuba Libre" bears an inapt title. "Cuba Libre" implies that Leonard has created some of his trademark cowboys and thieves getting caught up in a political revolution. To a certain extent that's true, as the book indeed has some classic Leonardesque characters, and there is a revolution in the wake of the U.S.S. Maine being blown up, but the war that racks the Cuban countryside rarely rises above an inconvenience (or an opportunity) for Leonard's cast of ne'er-do-wells.
Fortunately, a possibly inapt title is a forgivable sin. We read Mr. Leonard's novels for their wicked dialogue and hard-edged yet open-hearted heroes (along with the hard-edged and hard-hearted villains). "Cuba Libre" has these traits in spades.
Ostensibly the "hero" of the tale, Ben Tyler runs both horses and guns to Cuba on the eve of the Maine's destruction. The imminent war sets devious wheels a-turning, as does Tyler's instant infatuation with Amelia, a spoiled rich girl from New Orleans. Problem is, Amelia's beau is Rollie Boudreaux, an amoral business tycoon from America who uses ruthlessness to advance both his business and romantic interests.
Leonard's characters hop-scotch through a byzantine plot that involves robbery, murder, kidnapping, extortion, torture, false imprisonment, jailbreaks, political revolution, and more than a wee bit of plain old thievery. Along the way, our heroes and villains meet other characters of unknown morals but a well-demonstrated ability to kill at the drop of a hat. For Tyler, it is easy to come to Cuba having never killed a man only to discover that he has quite the talent for it.
Perhaps not one of Leonard's great novels (I have not read enough of him to judge), "Cuba Libre" offers a hardboiled plot that feels surprisingly truncated. The possibilities revolutionary Cuba offers for an author of Leonard's capabilities seem endless, and yet "Cuba Libre" really does not go very far with them. This book, for example, completely lacks the scope of James Ellroy's "American Tabloid" or "The Cold Ten Thousand," even though the locale offers such a potentially broad canvas.
An easy book to like, "Cuba Libre" offers a fun read, as far as it goes, although you will be a bit disappointed that it doesn't try to go further.
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The stain of history on Caribbean waters
By James Brooks
After 34 novels, Elmore Leonard has got the basic plot down to a pot of money pursued by everyone in the book. His best writing is the jewel polish he puts on the opening chapters - economy of language, dialog with a bite and transitions that zing with the speed of neurons. Set in Havana and Matanzas provinces of 1898 Cuba, one is constantly comparing that Cuba with the time-warped 1950s Cuba of today. The $40,000 prize pursued by both the good guys and the bad guys in the book is a metaphor for Cuba. At this time its wealth is shared by American and Spanish Dons, and the war is about who will keep it. The only problem is the insurrectos, those black and mulatto ex-slaves (Cuba did not abolish slavery until 1883.) who wanted this land for themselves. The only true native Cubans were done in 400 years earlier by Columbus at the very beginning of Spanish rule. With the benefit of hindsight, Leonard knows that Cuba remained in the hands of absentee landlords, Spanish and American gangsters, until Castro took power in the late 1950s. He asks the question whether things would really be different for the Cuban people if they were ruled by one of their own. Leonard does not get into the changes wrought by Castro, kicking out the absentee landlords, universal education and medical care. Instead he uses history to demonstrate how the stain of torture and execution by the Spaniards, carried over into the oligarchy that followed, the American occupations and on into the past 40 years of Castro. Sure this is a page turner - the 400 plus pages probably won't last over 24 hours, but the lesson of history is there if only we can heed it. James Brooks
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