Publisher's Synopsis
The breathtaking new thriller by suspense master David L. Robbins of a conspiracy so explosive, it could only be told as fiction. You know only half the story. Now the other half will blow you away.Can one man make historyand can another change it with a single bullet? It was a question that Professor Mikhal Lammeck had devoted his life to answering. An expert on historys great political assassinations, hes come to Havana in the spring of 1961 to seek the answer firsthand. For the more he sees of Cubas charismatic revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro, the more hes convinced that hes witnessing that rarest anomaly: the man who can change historyand who therefore must be murdered.The wild CIA plots, the treacherous double crosses, the near- miraculous escapes, are already legendary, but it seems as if Castros number is finally up. With a massive U.S.-backed invasion of the island looming, a trap has been set that not even Castro can escape. The players of this deadly assassination game are as varied as they are lethalorganized-crime figures, CIA agents, the Cuban underground, even a reclusive American billionaire. And now, perhaps most unlikely of all, a distinguished history professor.Mikhal Lammeck is thrust dead-center between a Cuban secret-police captain and a chillingly amoral American CIA agent. Its a devils bargain, one that Lammeck has no choice but to accept, and it will give him unprecedented access to the secret history of one of the twentieth centurys greatest coups. Lammeck suddenly finds himself no longer only studying history, but making it. He soon becomes the unwilling mentor of a young man whos arrived in Cubaa confused marine sharpshooter determined to become the centurys most infamous assassin.Seamlessly blending history and fiction into an electrifying page-turner, The Betrayal Game is that rarest of all thrillersa novel so vividly real, it might very well be true.From the Hardcover edition.
