"The Good Assassin opens up Hemingway´s Cuba. Possessing Alan Furst´s attention for period detail and the deft character touches of John Le Carré, Vidich has quickly carved out a place for himself among the very first rank of espionage writers. It´s a masterful effort and the author´s best work to date." --Michael Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of The Chicago Way "The Good Assassin is first-rate literary espionage...Author Paul Vidich has evoked not only the intrigue and brutality of Batista´s Cuba, but the island itself...a masterful work of noir fiction." --Susan Isaacs, New York Times bestselling author of A Hint of Strangeness Paul Vidich follows up his acclaimed debut spy thriller An Honorable Man with "a keen historical adventure from the best noir tradition" (Elizabeth Kostova, #1 New York Times bestselling author) set in 1950s Cuba, as foreign powers compete to influence the outcome of a revolution. Former CIA Agent George Mueller arrives in Havana in August 1958, during the last months of dictator Fulgencio Batista´s reign, to look into the activities of Toby Graham--an in-country CIA officer suspected of harboring sympathies for the rebels fighting the unpopular Batista regime. Specifically, Mueller´s old friend Graham may be putting weapons into the hands of Castro´s forces, in bold defiance of the United States arms embargo on the island. But when Mueller uncovers a world of deceit as the FBI, CIA, and State Department compete to influence the outcome of the revolution in the face of the brutal dictatorship´s imminent collapse, he realizes that nothing and no one is what they seem. This is a powerful story of ideals, passions, betrayals, and corrupting political rivalries in the months before Castro´s march into Havana on New Year´s Day, 1959. As New York Times bestselling author Michael Harvey raves, "It´s a masterful effort and the author´s best work to date."