Author of Destiny Also Known as the Ochoa Case

Considering its serious thesis - that history bubbles as effervescently as any fiction - Lee Williams' novel offers a bitingly funny snippet of Cuban-American life in Miami. Just scan the novel's cast of characters: Lean, an old guard Cold War spy working for a newspaper; Viviana, a Russo-Cuban waiflet looking to spring her Russian general dad from prison; her brother Boris, bouncer at the Yalta Agreement, a strip joint; Dell, an academic rogue who specializes in ghost-writing anything from term papers to dissertations: Zorn, a sculptor hopelessly in love with the Guapa, a young woman he met years past in Spain; and Rool, a...well, you'll just need to decide who Rool and his cohort Number One might be on your very own. And of course: The grand Cubano General Ochoa himself - he's dead...isn't he?