Escape: Night in Havana (Burnham Carter)
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james_davis_nicoll Night in Havana (Burnham Carter)
A career criminal in Havana is determined to go straight so he can marry his beloved Amalea but rather than come to the marriage without any assets at all, he decides to carry out one last job. What could go wrong?
The key to surviving stories like this is to be a charming reprobate of the sort who might plan incriminating evidence on a friend but who won't leave that friend to bleed to death and who will go to extremes not to lose his fiancee's nest egg. It also helps if the antagonists are witless thugs and an American couple the author goes out of his way to paint as unsympathetically as possible.
A career criminal in Havana is determined to go straight so he can marry his beloved Amalea but rather than come to the marriage without any assets at all, he decides to carry out one last job. What could go wrong?
The key to surviving stories like this is to be a charming reprobate of the sort who might plan incriminating evidence on a friend but who won't leave that friend to bleed to death and who will go to extremes not to lose his fiancee's nest egg. It also helps if the antagonists are witless thugs and an American couple the author goes out of his way to paint as unsympathetically as possible.
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