Dancing with Death
by Ruth Wade
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Pub Date 31 Aug 2016 | Archive Date 9 Sep 2016
Description
1925. Cuba is rife with gangs and corruption and revolution is in the air…
Girardo Ramos is barely 25 and already broken by life.
He works as a cleaner at a local casino, barely making ends meet, as he supports his pregnant wife and his parents, who live with them.
Girardo tries to make a few dollars selling information to his old friend Salvador who writes for La Prensa, a radical paper critical of the government.
One day he asks Girardo if he’s heard anything at the casino he can use.
The casinos are owned by Americans who pay bribes to the government and Salvador thinks starting a gang war among the casino owners is the best way to bring down the powers that be and take Cuba back.
One day when they meet, Girardo mentions his boss, Jack ‘Gimp’ Eastman, doesn’t know who is responsible for a recent murder at the casino.
But Salvador does know.
Girardo feeds the news back to Jack, in the hope of getting a gang war started.
Soon, Girardo is one of Jack’s Boys, as he hunts for ways to help the revolution and acts as a spy for Salvador.
Only he’s not at all sure he’s smart enough to pull off both.
But apart from that, he likes Jack, who is good to him. And he really likes Adel, Jack’s girl.
But when the attraction between the two of them is seen by Smokey, Jack’s violent right had man, they both begin to worry about how Jack will react.
Smokey doesn’t like Girardo. And Smokey is a dangerous man.
As Adel walks a fine line to hold onto her man, Girardo goes from being an eyes and ears man to being a killer.
And when Jack winds up dead, he has no one to look out for him, as Smokey takes over the racket, and Adel…
Dancing with Death is a gripping thriller, rife with emotion, suspense and intrigue set in sunny Cuba.
Ruth Wade is a part-time lecturer teaching creative writing at local colleges and academies. She spends the remainder of her working week researching and writing crime novels. Weekends can find her either learning to dance the Argentine Tango in Cambridge or deep in the woods of Hertfordshire shooting a longbow. Ruth Wade also writes as BK Duncan. Under that name she is a finalist in 2016’s The People’s Book Prize, and is a contender for the Beryl Bainbridge First Time Author Award.
Girardo Ramos is barely 25 and already broken by life.
He works as a cleaner at a local casino, barely making ends meet, as he supports his pregnant wife and his parents, who live with them.
Girardo tries to make a few dollars selling information to his old friend Salvador who writes for La Prensa, a radical paper critical of the government.
One day he asks Girardo if he’s heard anything at the casino he can use.
The casinos are owned by Americans who pay bribes to the government and Salvador thinks starting a gang war among the casino owners is the best way to bring down the powers that be and take Cuba back.
One day when they meet, Girardo mentions his boss, Jack ‘Gimp’ Eastman, doesn’t know who is responsible for a recent murder at the casino.
But Salvador does know.
Girardo feeds the news back to Jack, in the hope of getting a gang war started.
Soon, Girardo is one of Jack’s Boys, as he hunts for ways to help the revolution and acts as a spy for Salvador.
Only he’s not at all sure he’s smart enough to pull off both.
But apart from that, he likes Jack, who is good to him. And he really likes Adel, Jack’s girl.
But when the attraction between the two of them is seen by Smokey, Jack’s violent right had man, they both begin to worry about how Jack will react.
Smokey doesn’t like Girardo. And Smokey is a dangerous man.
As Adel walks a fine line to hold onto her man, Girardo goes from being an eyes and ears man to being a killer.
And when Jack winds up dead, he has no one to look out for him, as Smokey takes over the racket, and Adel…
Dancing with Death is a gripping thriller, rife with emotion, suspense and intrigue set in sunny Cuba.
Ruth Wade is a part-time lecturer teaching creative writing at local colleges and academies. She spends the remainder of her working week researching and writing crime novels. Weekends can find her either learning to dance the Argentine Tango in Cambridge or deep in the woods of Hertfordshire shooting a longbow. Ruth Wade also writes as BK Duncan. Under that name she is a finalist in 2016’s The People’s Book Prize, and is a contender for the Beryl Bainbridge First Time Author Award.
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