Author:Stephen Hunter
High summer in Cuba, 1953, and Havana gleams with possibility. Flush with booming casinos, sex, and drugs, Havana is a lucrative paradise for everyone from the Mafia and United Fruit to pimps, porn-makers, and anyone looking to grab a piece of the action - including the Cuban government, which naturally honours the interests of its old ally, the United States of America. Of course, where there's paradise, trouble can't be far behind. Trouble, in this case, makes its entrance in the terrifically charismatic and silver-tongued form of a young revolutionary named Fidel Castro. The Caribbean is fast becoming a strategic Cold War hub, and Soviet intelligence has taken Castro under its wing. The CIA's response is to send the one man capable of eliminating Castro: the legendary gunfighter and ex-Marine hero Earl Swagger, who proved his lethal talent in Stephen Hunter's previous bestsellers Hot Springs and Pale Horse Coming. In Cuba, Earl finds himself up to his neck in treacherous ambiguity, where the old rules about honour and duty don't apply, and where Earl's target seems to have more guts and good luck than anyone else in Cuba. Blending real-world figures into a lightning-paced narrative, Stephen Hunter once again proves himself the master of literary adventure and suspense.
Hunter is in the front rank of thriller novelists
—— PeopleAmerican hardboiled at its very best, full of taciturn and stoical characters and plotting in explosive overdrive
—— The TimesStories of passion, guilt and redemption that jump right off the page and smack the reader clean between the eyes
—— Independent on SundayBlisteringly funny... My Name Is Legion is not one of those soft-centred satires that ducks the issue. It throws down the gauntlet to Fleet Street and asks some tough questions of the newspapers we read
—— David Robson , Sunday TelegraphMy Name Is Legion weaves a compelling modern morality tale of crime and punishment that links the world of the rich and powerful to that of the poor and dispossessed... All of this is highly enjoyable, and kept going with an irresistibly waspish verve
—— Amanda Craig , Independent on SundayThe most spot-on novel about Fleet Street ever written... Chillingly accurate
—— Harry Mount , Daily TelegraphA big, broad, sweeping book, as disturbing as it is funny
—— GuardianBrilliantly inventive... A disturbing and highly original novel
—— Stephen Glover , Daily MailAt its heart, this is a novel about the tabloid press in modern Britain. The scenes involving The Legion, its monstrous proprietor Lennox Mark and its variously brutal, corrupt of self-loathing journalists, are where Wilson's imagination has really been unleashed... Terrifyingly funny
—— IndependentIts combination of Grand Guignol and place setting does command attention
—— Metro LondonOriginal, moving and entertaining for adults as well as for older children
—— Julia Donaldson , Daily ExpressA deservedly acclaimed read.
—— Time Out London
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