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This breathtaking thriller, originally published the year before the Cuban Missile Crisis under a pen name Lawrence Block never used before or since, is the rarest of Block’s books – and still a work of chilling relevance all these years later, with Castro and Cuba once again commanding headlines.
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BECAUSE IN 1961, NO ONE WOULD HAVE CALLED FIDEL CASTRO THE RETIRING TYPE. There were five of them, each prepared to kill, each with his own reasons for accepting what might well be a suicide mission. The pay? $20,000 apiece. The mission? Find a way into Cuba and kill Castro.
Apr 25, 2018 · Killing Castro (1961) is another pseudonymous early book that Block wrote at an editor’s request: Chris Heckelmann of Monarch Books wanted a title featuring a crew of Americans who travel into Cuba to assassinate its dictator.
Block wrote KILLING CASTRO on a commission, paid by a publisher who was gambling on Castro being assassinated in real life, in which case sales of the book would have skyrocketed once the public came to regard it as being prescient and topical.
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Jul 16, 2011 · Hard Case Crime has done it again, bringing us a 1961 pseudonymous thriller from Lawrence Block. Killing Castro focuses on one member of a ragtag ensemble cast who have accepted a commission to kill Fidel Castro.
Find a way into Cuba and kill Castro. This breathtaking thriller, originally published the year before the Cuban Missile Crisis under a pen name Lawrence Block never used before or since, is the rarest of Block’s books—and still a work of chilling relevance all these years later, with Castro and Cuba once again commanding headlines.
Find a way into Cuba and kill Castro." "This breathtaking thriller, originally published the year before the Cuban Missile Crisis under a pen name Lawrence Block never used before or since, is...
