Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith
Havana Bay is by the author of Gorky Park, which I’d read before, and features the same Russian detective. In this story, he travels to Cuba. I guess since communism is gone in Russia, the author had to move his story line. Politically based mysteries aren’t really my favorite but as a spy story, Havana Bay is not high in convoluted plotting. As a novel, the characters are interesting and the story unfurls at an unrushed but attention-keeping pace. When finished, you remember the detective’s inner drama more than whodunit, which is more satisfying (and allows you to read the book again some day).
Dawn
Read this years ago but its stuck with me.
Like you I’d only read “Gorky” but my dad
has read quite a few in the series.
The best thing about “Havana Bay” is that
we get to see quite a lot of Arkady through
the eyes of his cuban counter part and through
her we get quite a lot of cuba as well.
By the way Smith also wrote “Nightwing” a great
book about rabid vampire bats. Crappy movie,
though with Nick Mancusco.
Doug