Cuba Straits

A remarkable installment in the Doc Ford series from New York Times–bestselling author Randy Wayne White.

Doc Ford’s old friend General Juan Rivera has gone into the business of high-profile collectibles, but when he manages to obtain a collection of letters written by Fidel Castro between 1960 and 1962 to a secret girlfriend, it’s not a matter of money anymore. Rivera has stumbled way out of his depth. Those letters contain a secret that someone cannot allow to be made public. A lot happened between Cuba and the United States in those years. Many men died. A few more will hardly be noticed.

Randy Wayne White is the author of twenty-two Doc Ford books, including the latest,Deep Blue. He has also had four collections of his columns for Outside magazine and elsewhere published—and the new Hannah Smith series has debuted withGone, Deceived, and Haunted. In 2002, a one-hour documentary film calledThe Gift of the Game, about White’s trip to Cuba to find the remnants of the Little League teams founded by Ernest Hemingway in the days before Castro, won the Best of the Fest Award from the 2002 Woods Hole Film Festival, then was bought by PBS and broadcast station by station in the spring and summer of 2003. A veteran fishing guide who at one time had his own local PBS show, he lives in an old house on an Indian mound in Pineland, Florida.