Havana Betrayal

Desperate to matter again, war correspondent Peter Carrick slips into Havana in 1961 with a press pass, a hidden mission, and orders to help bring down Castro. Then he falls for Sofía — a nurse with secrets of her own, and a rebel's heart. But as the invasion nears, Peter learns the truth: his own side is willing to sacrifice everyone he loves.
Havana, 1961. The invasion is coming. And everyone he loves is standing in its path.

Peter Carrick made his name reporting under fire in Korea. Now the applause feels hollow — until a quiet man named Walter Cain offers him work that matters: enter Cuba as a journalist, and serve as the CIA's eyes inside Castro's Havana in the weeks before a secret invasion.

But Havana refuses to stay an assignment. There is Sofía, a nurse whose father vanished into Batista's prisons and who has learned never to trust a charming American. And Miguel, a father training in a hidden yard with borrowed rifles, fighting for the future of a seven-year-old boy who only asks that his papá come home before he sleeps. When the bombs fall on April 15, Peter must choose: follow protocol and disappear, or burn his cover to save them.

Set against the chaos of the Bay of Pigs, Havana Betrayal is a gripping novel of espionage, conscience, and love — and the price of serving two masters when only one can survive. For readers of Graham Greene's The Quiet American and the novels of Alan Furst.