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Leonard's famous "Tropical Western" delivers a smuggler, a sugar baron, and one smart, pistol-hot lady to Havana during the Spanish-American War.War in Cuba isn't Ben Tyler's concern. Still, sailing mares and guns into Havana harbor in 1898 - right past the submerged wreckage of the U.S. battleship Maine - may not be the most intelligent thing the recently prison-sprung horse wrangler ever did. Neither is shooting one of the local Guardia, though the pompous peacock deserved it. Now Tyler's sitting tight in a vermin-infested Cuban stockade waiting to face a firing squad. But he's not dying…
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24 editions · 6 languages- Ebook · English · 2002HarperCollins · 9780060547486
- Paperback · English · 2000Delta · 352 pages · 9780385323840
- Audiobook · English · 1998Brand: Harpercollins · 9780788718663
- Audiobook · English · 1998Brand: Random House Audio · 9780553479478
- Other · English · 2012William Morrow & Co · 405 pages · 9780062184290
- Other · English · 2012Orion Publishing Group, Limited · 9781780222394
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