Used. Hardcover. Elmore Leonard saddles up his signature snappy dialogue and rides it straight into the steamy streets of 1898 Havana for a tropical western with plenty of bite. Recently prison-sprung horse wrangler Ben Tyler smuggles mares and munitions right past the sunken *Maine*, promptly earning himself a date with a firing squad and a cell full of tropical grit. Yet our man Ben refuses to bite the bullet until he collects a debt from a two-timing sugar baron, especially with a pistol-hot lady lingering nearby to complicate the caper. As the Spanish-American War boils over and the whole island teeters on the brink of hell, Leonard serves up a cocktail of cool criminals and high-stakes tension that goes down remarkably smooth.