From Booklist
Well, here's a surprise: Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana, who have been edging ever closer to marriage through several episodes in Parker's Suspicion series, have finally done the deed--tied the knot during a weekend trip to the Florida Keys, much to the consternation of their respective families. Now they are planning a jaunt to Cuba, Anthony's homeland, but the trip is complicated when the CIA asks Anthony to pass on a message to his brother-in-law, a general, who may be the target of an assassination plot. Further muddling matters, one of the assassins may be the son of two of Anthony's closest friends. This series has been around for a while, but it hasn't yet reached the point where the characters feel too familiar or its plots have drifted into formula. The interpersonal dynamics between Connor and Quintana remain sharp, and the Florida setting continues to add to the appeal. If Parker keeps writing them as smartly as she has written this one, her series may never turn stale. David Pitt
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The New York Times Book Review
Top-drawer suspense.

Publishers Weekly
Razor-sharp portraits . . . riveting.

Tony Hillerman
A real find for those who love taut, highly literate yarns.

Book Description
With a sizzling Cuban setting and a murder plot that hits too close to home, the New York Times bestselling mastermind delivers her most dramatic case to date. Miami lawyers Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana have recently married. Gail hopes to learn more about her new husband by visiting the island that still claims his heart. Anthony’s loyalties are divided between his family, who believe in the Revolution, and his friends, dissident writers José Leiva and Yolanda Cabrera. No one is aware that Yolanda’s idealistic twenty-year-old son, Mario, belongs to an underground group plotting the assassination of a top Cuban general. The night before Gail and Anthony leave for Havana, the CIA pays a visit. They want Anthony to deliver a message to his brother-in-law, General Ramiro Vega: He is in danger, and unless he defects, he could be killed. Why is Vega so important to the CIA? The answer leads to the discovery of a violent death, a secret terrorist threat, and a love from the past that could tear Gail and Anthony apart.

About the Author
Barbara Parker is the author of nine other mysteries, including Suspicion of Innocence, which was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel by an American Author. She is a former prosecutor with the state attorney’s office in Dade County.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

"Miami lawyers Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana have recently been married. Gail hopes to learn more about her new husband by seeing the island that still claims his heart. Anthony's loyalties are divided between his family, who believe in the Revolution, and his friends, dissident writers Jose Leiva and Yolanda Cabrera. No one is aware that Yolanda's idealistic twenty-year-old son, Mario, belongs to an underground group plotting the assassination of a top Cuban general." "The night before Gail and Anthony leave for Havana, the CIA pays a visit. They want Anthony to deliver a message to his brother-in-law, General Ramiro Vega: He is in danger, and unless he defects, he could be killed." Why is Vega so important to the CIA? The answer leads to the discovery of a violent death, a secret terrorist threat, and a love from the past that could tear Gail and Anthony apart.

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