Publisher's Synopsis
The year is 1960 and the United States and the Soviet Union stare each other down in the frozen glare of the Cold War. The US stands ready to fight for a world safe for democracy. The Soviet Union wants to spread totalitarian communism anywhere it can. These two nuclear powers draw barbed wire across continents. Conflicts erupt in Europe and Asia, but the United States manages to keep Soviet influence out of the western hemisphere. Then Fidel Castro happens. He seizes power in Cuba, an island 90 miles off the tip of Florida and quickly reveals himself as a fanatical communist determined to fan the flames of anti-Americanism throughout Latin America. Captain Joe Martin, US naval attaché assigned to the American embassy in Havana, his wife, Willa, and three children, Jan, Nell, and Skip become embroiled in this flash point of history. They find the otherwise beautiful and exotic Cuba hides dangerous, and even fatal, secrets for them all.
