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Paul Vidich

5 Reasons 50s-Era Cuba Is the Perfect Setting for a Thriller

By Paul Vidich

May 12, 2017

I set my second novel in Cuba in the closing months of 1958, when American power brokers in Washington—namely the CIA, FBI, White House, and State Department—dithered between support for the corrupt but reliably pro-American Batista regime and the popular but largely unknown Castro-led rebellion. The tension between democratic ideals and predictable tyranny was on…

The Good Assassin: New Excerpt

By Paul Vidich

May 4, 2017

The Good Assassin by Paul Vidich is a suspenseful tale of Cold War espionage set in 1950s Cuba, where foreign powers compete to influence the outcome of a revolution. Former CIA Agent George Mueller arrives in Havana in August 1958—the last months before the fall of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista—to look into the activities of…

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