Red Heat Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean [Paperback]

From theNew York TimesBestselling Author ofIndian Summer

During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, the Caribbean was in crisis. While the United States and the Soviet Union acted out the world's tensions on Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic, the powerbrokers of these three critical island nations---the Castro brothers, Che Guevara, Rafael Trujillo, and Fran?ois Papa Doc Duvalier---had ambitions of their own. Steeped in new material and eyewitness reports,Red Heatis an authoritative account of a wildly dramatic and dangerous era of international politics that has unmistakable resonance today.

Depicts the swaggering, corrupt, erratic, and often violent years of rule by Fidel Castro of Cuba, Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, and Fran?ois Duvalier of Haiti. Suitcases full of cash, torture chambers, gunboats, coups, dictatorship, and revolutionary fervor spill out of these pages&.Captures the missile crisis as a frightening and real dance of knives in a dusty Caribbean cockfighting square. David E. Hoffman, The Washington Post

Deftly juggles the stories of three countries---Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic---and their relationships with the superpowers, where things were not as they seemed&Von Tunzelmann tells stories so bizarre as to be beyond any but the most grotesque horror films&.It is good to see this tale, so often seen in world terms, as part of a contiguous regional story. The Guardian (London)

A sweeping history&Von Tunzelmann writes with the same verve and range of material she deployed inIndian Summer, a praised treatment of the end of the [Indian] British Empire. Financial Times (London)

A mesmerizing, Conradian tale where the truth is almost too dark to bear. A remarkably gripping popular history. Kirkus Reviews

Von Tunzelmann's diligent work will widen the eyes of cold war buffs. Booklist

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